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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. TerminusDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

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.

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
RDF store

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Score	5.55
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#10	Object oriented DBMS
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

terminusdb.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Hazelcast

DataChemist Ltd.

Vaticle

Initial release

2008

2018

2016

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Journaling Streams

Synchronous replication via raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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