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OrientDB is the first Multi-Model Distributed DBMS with a True Graph Engine. Multi-Model means 2nd generation NoSQL able to manage complex domain with incredible performance. OrientDB manages relationships without using JOINs, but rather direct pointers. This allows to have constant performance on traversing relationships, no matter the database size.
Customer Reviews
Mahadevan K.
Advanced user of OrientDBOrientdb is a great database for modelling data with complex relationships.
Some of the reasons why we preferred using OrientDB
- Master-master replication and clustering
- Decent tool set to start with, although there weren't any ORMs for OrientDB as such
- its embeddable directly in Java code, no need for a separate install, which made development easy
- gremlin and tinkerpop are counterintuitive to understand at times
- because its hybrid, its hard to zero-in on your needs and what model you want for your database
- at the time we used it, there were some compatibility issues with the standards and some complications around mixing different modes - document, graph and sql vs tinkerpop
Please ensure you benchmark OrientDB for your needs before using it, instead of relying on benchmarks shown online.
We used it to create a social network. A great example of OrientDB usage was constructing a user feeds based on their network. We were able to do this in real-time and without any kind of addtional processing. The main power of OrientDB comes from the fact that it doesn't have to infer relationships because it stores the relationships directly, this makes queries that span multiple relationships extremely fast
