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DBMS > Datomic vs. TypeDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. TypeDB vs. XTDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTypeDB 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.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS infoThe data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS infoThe type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.
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Score1.48
Rank#143  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#10  Object oriented DBMS
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#307  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.datomic.comtypedb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comtypedb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectVaticleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201220162019
Current release1.0.7180, July 20242.28.3, June 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaClojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSynchronous replication via raftyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infosubstituted by the relationship featureno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress

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