BrightstarDB vs SurrealDB

BrightstarDB is a rdf database; SurrealDB is a multiple database. BrightstarDB (2012-02, MIT, C#) ranks #80 this month; SurrealDB (2022-07, BUSL-1.1, Rust) ranks #8. They differ on 22 of 46 surveyed features.

Attribute BrightstarDB #80 ▼3 Growing SurrealDB #8 ▲1 Leader
At a glance
Rank #80#8
Score 41.265.8
GitHub stars 46333.2k
Popularity 46.374.2
Activity 36.963.3
Community 34.766.7
Research 50.052.2
Fundamentals
Description A .NET-native RDF store with SPARQL support and binding of RDF resources to .NET dynamic objects. Supports multi-threaded reads with ACID transactions but no horizontal scaling.A multi-model database written in Rust that combines document, graph, and relational paradigms. Uses inter-document record links for graph traversals, with ACID transactions and row-level permissions.
Vendor —SurrealDB
Model RDFMultiple
Kind embeddeddatabase
Category EmergingGrowing
First released 2012-022022-07
Status inactive — No active development since 2015.active
License MITBUSL-1.1
Written in C#Rust
Query languages SPARQL, LINQSurrealQL, GraphQL, GQL
gdotv support nono

Feature scores 22 of 46 rows differ

Feature BrightstarDBSurrealDB
Community & Business
Active development ✓✓
Commercial support ·✓
Live community ✓0.75
Open Source ✓0.5
Pricing ·✓
Trendiness ·✓
Deployment
Containerization ·✓
Work as dedicated instance ✓✓
Work as embedded ✓✓
Testing in-memory version ·✓
Platform
Operating on Linux 0.75✓
Operating on Windows 0.75✓
SaaS offering ·✓
Operations
Automatic updates ··
Client side caching ··
Data versioning support ·✓
Live backups ··
Distribution
Cluster Re-balancing ·✓
Data Distribution ✓✓
High-Availability ✓✓
Query Distribution ✓✓
Replication support ✓✓
Developer Experience
Data types defined 0.50.5
Logging/Auditing ✓✓
Object-Graph Mapper ·✓
Reactive programming ·✓
Documentation up-to-date ✓✓
Binary protocol ✓✓
CLI ✓✓
GUI ✓✓
Data Model
Multi-database ·✓
Graph-native data ✓✓
REST API ✓✓
Query Language ✓✓
Transactions
Granular locking ··
Multiple isolation levels ✓0.5
Read committed transaction ✓✓
Transaction support ✓✓
Schema & Security
Constraints ·✓
Schema support ·✓
Secondary indexes ✓✓
Server side procedures ✓✓
Triggers ·✓
Authentication ·✓
Authorization ·✓
Data encryption ·0.5