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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. TerminusDB vs. Tigris vs. TypeDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureTypeDB 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 modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Graph 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.
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#9  Object oriented DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kinetica.comterminusdb.comwww.tigrisdata.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.tigrisdata.com/­docstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperKineticaDataChemist Ltd.Tigris Data, Inc.Vaticle
Initial release2012201820222016
Current release7.1, August 202111.0.0, January 20232.28.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC, C++Prolog, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingGraph PartitioningShardingno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationJournaling StreamsyesSynchronous replication via raft
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes, using FoundationDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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KineticaTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistTigrisTypeDB 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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