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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HugeGraph vs. Tarantool vs. TDengine vs. TypeDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsTime Series DBMS and big data platformTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.tarantool.iogithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
typedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.tdengine.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffBaiduVKTDEngine, previously Taos DataVaticle
Initial release20142018200820192016
Current release0.92.10.0, May 20223.0, August 20222.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC and C++CJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Unix
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noFull-featured ANSI SQL supportStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Open binary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsLua, C and SQL stored proceduresnono
Triggersyesnoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.ShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
yesMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparkyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoedges in graphyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistenceno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
yesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLHugeGraphTarantoolTDengineTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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