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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. BaseX vs. Newts vs. TerarkDB vs. TypeDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitealtibase.combasex.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseBaseX GmbHOpenNMS GroupByteDance, originally TerarkVaticle
Initial release19992007201420162016
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202311.0, June 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP REST
Java API
C++ API
Java API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaC++
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnonono
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writernonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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AltibaseBaseXNewtsTerarkDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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