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Virtuoso

A multi-model database supporting relational, RDF, and property graph data. Supports horizontal scaling, SPARQL and SQL queries. Available in open-source and proprietary enterprise editions.

Details

Vendor
OpenLink Software
Type
Multiple
Category
Enterprise
License
GPL-2.0
Query Languages
SQL, SPARQL

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Feature Scores

Community & Business

Active development
Updated within last 3 months
Commercial support
Paid support available
Live community
>75% of issues addressed
Open Source
Open source license
Pricing
Pricing publicly available
Trendiness
Declining trend

Deployment

Containerization
Docker image available
Work as dedicated instance
Can run as standalone server
Work as embedded
Standalone only
Testing in-memory version
No in-memory option

Platform

Operating on Linux
Linux officially supported
Operating on Windows
Windows officially supported
SaaS offering
Cloud service available

Operations

Automatic updates
Manual updates only
Client side caching
No client-side caching
Data versioning support
No versioning
Live backups
Hot backup supported

Distribution

Cluster Re-balancing
No auto-rebalancing
Data Distribution
Data sharding supported
High-Availability
No HA support
Query Distribution
Distributed query execution
Replication support
Replication available

Developer Experience

Data types defined
Single data type (strings)
Logging/Auditing
Event logging supported
Object-Graph Mapper
No object mapper
Reactive programming
No reactive programming
Documentation up-to-date
Docs exist but outdated
Binary protocol
Text-based protocols only
CLI
Command-line interface
GUI
Visual interface available

Data Model

Multi-database
Multi-model database
Graph-native data
Graph abstraction layer
REST API
REST endpoint available
Query Language
Standard query language (Cypher/Gremlin)

Transactions

Granular locking
Object-level locking
Multiple isolation levels
Multiple isolation levels
Read committed transaction
Read committed available
Transaction support
ACID transactions

Schema & Security

Constraints
Full constraint support
Schema support
Schema-less
Secondary indexes
Secondary indexes supported
Server side procedures
Stored procedures supported
Triggers
Event triggers supported
Authentication
Authentication supported
Authorization
Role-based access control
Data encryption
No encryption