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

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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.

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

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.

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

typedb.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Vaticle

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2018

2016

2012

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Journaling Streams

Synchronous replication via raft

none

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

yes

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

yes

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