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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. TerarkDB vs. TypeDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

typedb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

typedb.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Vaticle

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2016

2012

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

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

yes

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