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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. RDFox vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	24.08
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.26
Rank	#291	Overall
	#23	Graph DBMS
	#12	RDF stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#229	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

typedb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Vaticle

Initial release

2008

2017

2016

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
Java

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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