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System Properties Comparison TerminusDB vs. TypeDB vs. VelocityDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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.

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

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	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

terminusdb.com

typedb.com

velocitydb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

typedb.com/docs

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

DataChemist Ltd.

Vaticle

VelocityDB Inc

Yanza

Initial release

2018

2016

2011

2015

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

2.28.3, June 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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)

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

.Net

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript
Python

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

.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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