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System Properties Comparison OrigoDB vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. Virtuoso vs. YDB

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NameOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVirtuoso  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsVirtuoso is a multi-model hybrid-RDBMS that supports management of data represented as relational tables and/or property graphsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Relational DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Document store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score4.27
Rank#73  Overall
#13  Document stores
#4  Graph DBMS
#2  Native XML DBMS
#39  Relational DBMS
#2  RDF stores
#9  Search engines
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteorigodb.comsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.comvirtuoso.openlinksw.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.openlinksw.com/­virtuosoydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperRobert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.OpenLink SoftwareYandex
Initial release2009 infounder the name LiveDB2001201819982019
Current release3.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 20237.2.11, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#C++Prolog, RustC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoSQL - Standard relational schema
RDF - Quad (S, P, O, G) or Triple (S, P, O)
XML - DTD, XML Schema
DAV - freeform filesystem objects, plus User Defined Types a/k/a Dynamic Extension Type
Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infocan be achieved using .NETnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infoSQL-92, SQL-200x, SQL-3, SQLXSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
GeoSPARQL
HTTP API
JDBC
Jena RDF API
ODBC
OLE DB
RDF4J API
RESTful HTTP API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SOAP webservices
SPARQL 1.1
WebDAV
XPath
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes infoVirtuoso PLno
Triggersyes infoDomain Eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph PartitioningyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling StreamsChain, star, and bi-directional replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritydepending on modelnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based authorizationnoRole-based access controlFine-grained Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in addition to typical coarse-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) according to SQL-standard. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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Specific characteristicsVirtuoso is a modern multi-model RDBMS for managing data represented as tabular relations...
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Competitive advantagesPerformance & Scale — as exemplified by DBpedia and the LOD Cloud it spawned, i.e.,...
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Typical application scenariosUsed for — Analytics/BI Conceptual Data Virtualization Enterprise Knowledge Graphs...
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Key customersBroad use across enterprises and governments including — European Union (EU) US Government...
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Market metricsLargest installed-base ​of Multi-Model RDBMS for AI-friendly Knowledge Graphs Platform...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAvailable in both Commercial Enterprise and Open Source (GPL v2) Editions Feature...
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