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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory caching systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataAn 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 storeTime 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.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#342  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#99  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iocachelot.ioquestdb.ioswaydb.simer.autypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.ioquestdb.io/­docstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.QuestDB Technology IncSimer PlahaVaticle
Initial release20152015201420182016
Current release2.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open 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++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustScalaJava
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
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL with time-series extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Memcached protocolHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
gRPC 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
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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 nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)noneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynoneMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BigObjectCachelot.ioQuestDBSwayDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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