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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. InfinityDB vs. Riak KV vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. InfinityDB vs. Riak KV vs. TypeDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTypeDB 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 modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph 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.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#8  Object oriented DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.ioboilerbay.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesttypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftBoiler Bay Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesVaticle
Initial release2010200220092016
Current release4.03.2.0, December 20222.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaErlangJava
Server operating systems.NETAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
JavaC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoErlangno
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"no
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno infolinks between data sets can be storedno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, using Riak Securityyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
More information provided by the system vendor
Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityInfinityDBRiak KVTypeDB 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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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityInfinityDBRiak KVTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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