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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. Stardog vs. Transbase vs. TypeDB vs. Vertica

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NameRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query languageCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational 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 infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websiteravendb.netwww.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmltypedb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationravendb.net/­docsdocs.stardog.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmltypedb.com/­docsvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperHibernating RhinosStardog-UnionTransaction Software GmbHVaticleOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20102010198720162005
Current release5.4, July 20227.3.0, May 2020Transbase 8.3, 20222.26.3, January 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC#JavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (RQL)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServeryesnoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayesnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesyes infovia event handlersyesnoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoby using Cassandrahorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using CassandraMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeperno infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyesno infosubstituted by the relationship featureyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progressfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
More information provided by the system vendor
RavenDBStardogTransbaseTypeDB infoformerly named GraknVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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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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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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