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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. TypeDB vs. Valentina Server vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Object-relational database and reports server

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

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

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

typedb.com

www.valentina-db.net

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

typedb.com/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Vaticle

Paradigma Software

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2016

1999

2017

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

2.26.3, January 2024

5.7.5

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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