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

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NameOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 relationshipsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible APIA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websiteorigodb.comsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
yottadb.com
Technical documentationorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#ydb.tech/­en/­docsyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperRobert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.YandexYottaDB, LLC
Initial release2009 infounder the name LiveDB2001201820192001
Current release3.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
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
LinuxLinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyesyesno
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 .NETnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)by using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
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 PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling StreamsActive-passive shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritydepending on modelnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based authorizationnoRole-based access controlAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud usersUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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