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System Properties Comparison Typesense vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

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Score	0.92
Rank	#192	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

typesense.org

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

Technical documentation

typesense.org/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

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

Data scheme

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

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