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System Properties Comparison SurrealDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.08
Rank	#176	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#16	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

surrealdb.com

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

Technical documentation

surrealdb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

SurrealDB Ltd

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2022

2019

Current release

v1.5.0, May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Data scheme

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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