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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. H2 vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.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 modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational 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 modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.h2database.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlswaydb.simer.autypedb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceThomas MuellerOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Simer PlahaVaticle
Initial release20132005198420182016
Current release2.2.220, July 20237.4.1.1, 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen 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 languageJavaJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMHP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneMulti-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 systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodeAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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BluefloodH2Oracle RdbSwayDBTypeDB 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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