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System Properties Comparison SurrealDB vs. SwayDB vs. TypeDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

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.

Document store

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Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

surrealdb.com

swaydb.simer.au

typedb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

surrealdb.com/docs

typedb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

SurrealDB Ltd

Simer Plaha

Vaticle

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2022

2018

2016

2019

Current release

v1.5.0, May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Scala

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

yes, each node contains all data

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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, based on authentication and database rules

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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