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System Properties Comparison TypeDB vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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 general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

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.

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

typedb.com

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

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

typedb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Vaticle

Juxt Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2016

2019

2001

Current release

2.28.3, June 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

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

Synchronous replication via raft

yes, each node contains all data

yes

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

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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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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