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System Properties Comparison TerminusDB vs. Tigris vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

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.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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.

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#53	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#10	Object oriented DBMS
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

terminusdb.com

www.tigrisdata.com

typedb.com

Technical documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

typedb.com/docs

Developer

DataChemist Ltd.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2018

2022

2016

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Journaling Streams

yes

Synchronous replication via raft

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes, using FoundationDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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