Mulgara vs OrientDB

Mulgara is a rdf database; OrientDB is a multiple database. Mulgara (2006, OSL-3.0, Java) ranks #134 this month; OrientDB (2010, Apache-2.0, Java) ranks #12.

Attribute Mulgara #134 ▼4 Emerging OrientDB #12 ▼5 Strong
At a glance
Rank #134#12
Score 21.662.0
GitHub stars 485k
Popularity 34.082.9
Activity 39.860.7
Community 30.335.4
Research —67.6
Fundamentals
Description An RDF triplestore written in Java, supporting semantic web data management with both SPARQL and the iTQL query language.A distributed multi-model database combining graph and document models with TinkerPop support. Features sharding for horizontal scaling and ACID transactions.
Vendor Mulgara ProjectOrientDB Community
Model RDFMultiple
Kind databasedatabase
Category EmergingEnterprise
First released 20062010
Status inactive — No significant development activity in recent years.active
License OSL-3.0Apache-2.0
Written in JavaJava
Query languages SPARQL, iTQLSQL, Gremlin
gdotv support nono

Feature scores — not surveyed for Mulgara

Feature MulgaraOrientDB
Community & Business
Active development —✓
Commercial support —✓
Live community —0.5
Open Source —✓
Pricing —·
Trendiness —0.25
Deployment
Containerization —✓
Work as dedicated instance —✓
Work as embedded —✓
Testing in-memory version —✓
Platform
Operating on Linux —✓
Operating on Windows —✓
SaaS offering —·
Operations
Automatic updates —·
Client side caching —·
Data versioning support —·
Live backups —✓
Distribution
Cluster Re-balancing —·
Data Distribution —✓
High-Availability —✓
Query Distribution —0.5
Replication support —✓
Developer Experience
Data types defined —✓
Logging/Auditing —✓
Object-Graph Mapper —·
Reactive programming —·
Documentation up-to-date —0.5
Binary protocol —✓
CLI —✓
GUI —✓
Data Model
Multi-database —✓
Graph-native data —·
REST API —✓
Query Language —✓
Transactions
Granular locking —·
Multiple isolation levels —✓
Read committed transaction —✓
Transaction support —✓
Schema & Security
Constraints —·
Schema support —✓
Secondary indexes —✓
Server side procedures —✓
Triggers —✓
Authentication —✓
Authorization —✓
Data encryption —✓