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DBMS > Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB vs. TypeDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column 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 modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicquasar.aigithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
typedb.com
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdoc.quasar.ai/­mastertypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.SpotifyquasardbAlex KashirinVaticle
Initial release20162014200920202016
Current release3.14.1, January 20240.5, April 20212.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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DgraphHeroicQuasardbSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTypeDB 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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