OrientDB is an Open Source NoSQL DBMS with the features of both Document and Graph DBMSs. It's written in Java and it's amazingly fast: it can store 220,000 records per second on common hardware. Even for a Document based database the relationships are managed as in Graph Databases with direct connections among records. You can traverse parts of or entire trees and graphs of records in a few milliseconds. Supports schema-less, schema-full and schema-mixed modes. Has a strong security profiling system based on user and roles and supports SQL amongst the query languages. Thanks to the SQL layer it's straightforward to use for people skilled in the Relational world.
Look also at Presentations with video and slides introducing OrientDB.
No. OrientDB adheres to the NoSQL movement even though it supports a subset of SQL as query language. In this way it's easy to start using it without having to learn too much new stuff. OrientDB is a Document Database but has the best features of other DBMSs. For example relationships are handled as in Graph Databases.
The most common reason applications scale out badly is, very often, the database. The database is the bottleneck of most applications. OrientDB scales out very well on multiple machines, thanks to the Multi-Master replication where there is no single bottleneck on writes like with Master-Slave replication. The database can be up to 302,231,454,903,657 billion (2^78) records for the maximum capacity of 19,807,040,628,566,084 Terabytes of data on a single server or multiple nodes.
OrientDB has been designed to be very fast. It inherits the best features and concepts from Object Databases, Graph DBMS and modern NoSQL engines. OrientDB manages relationships without the run-time costly join operation, but rather with direct pointers (links) between records. No matters if you have 1 or 1,000 Billion of records, the traversing cost remains constant. Download the Benchmark PDF XGDBench: A Benchmarking Platform for Graph Stores in Exascale Clouds by Tokyo Institute of Technology and IBM Research.
Take a look at GraphDB comparison and DocumentDB comparison. Download the Benchmark PDF XGDBench: A Benchmarking Platform for Graph Stores in Exascale Clouds by Tokyo Institute of Technology and IBM Research.
Yes. OrientDB is totally written in Java and can run on any platform without configuration and installation. The full Server distribution is about 1Mb without the demo database. Do you develop with a language different than Java? No problem, look at the Programming Language Binding.
OrientDB is free for any use (Apache 2 license). If you are in production don't miss the professional support service. For courses and training look at the on-line course catalog.
Start learning OrientDB by following the first Tutorial.
- Documentation
- For any questions visit the OrientDB Community Group
- Professional Support.
