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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. Kingbase vs. TypeDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.kingbase.com.cn

typedb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Spotify

Konrad von Backstrom

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2014

2018

1999

2016

Current release

0.8, December 2018

V8.0, August 2021

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Licensing and pricing models

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