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DBMS > BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. EJDB vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeDocument storeKey-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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Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score0.30
Rank#302  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.01
Rank#202  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbswaydb.simer.autypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.SoftmotionsSimer PlahaVaticle
Initial release20152015201220182016
Current release2.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolin-process shared librarygRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenonenoneMulti-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 systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BigObjectCachelot.ioEJDBSwayDBTypeDB 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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