DBMS > Firebolt vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

TypeDB 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.

Primary database model

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

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Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2020

2013

2014

2016

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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