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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cachelot.io vs. LokiJS vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraIn-memory caching systemIn-memory JavaScript DBMSAn 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 modelTime Series DBMSKey-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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Score0.11
Rank#350  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#397  Overall
#64  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#259  Overall
#41  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#385  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score1.01
Rank#202  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#92  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iocachelot.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSswaydb.simer.autypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikitechfort.github.io/­LokiJStypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceSimer PlahaVaticle
Initial release20132015201420182016
Current release2.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen SourceOpen 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 languageJavaC++JavaScriptScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononoyes
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 indexesnonoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTMemcached protocolJavaScript APIgRPC 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
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranonenonenoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranonenonenoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
nonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BluefloodCachelot.ioLokiJSSwayDBTypeDB 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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