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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. TypeDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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.

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

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.

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

typedb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Vaticle

Yandex

Initial release

2013

2011

2016

2019

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

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

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication via raft

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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