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System Properties Comparison RDFox vs. Tarantool vs. TimescaleDB vs. TypeDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extensionRelational DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tarantool.iowww.timescale.comtypedb.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.timescale.comtypedb.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperOxford Semantic TechnologiesVKTimescaleVaticleParadigma Software
Initial release20172008201720161999
Current release6.0, Septermber 20222.10.0, May 20222.15.0, May 20242.26.3, January 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoRDF schemasFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimenumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Open binary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLua, C and SQL stored proceduresuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellnoyes
Triggersyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesreplication via a shared file systemAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infosubstituted by the relationship featureyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, cooperative multitaskingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistencenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRoles, resources, and access typesAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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RDFoxTarantoolTimescaleDBTypeDB infoformerly named GraknValentina Server
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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