FlockDB vs TypeDB
Both are other databases. FlockDB (2010-04, Apache-2.0, Scala) ranks #76 this month; TypeDB (2016, MPL-2.0, Rust) ranks #7.
| Attribute | FlockDB | TypeDB |
|---|---|---|
| At a glance | ||
| Rank | #76 | #7 |
| Score | 41.7 | 68.4 |
| GitHub stars | 3.3k | 4.5k |
| Popularity | 48.2 | 75.0 |
| Activity | 36.9 | 75.2 |
| Community | 34.7 | 63.3 |
| Research | 50.0 | 50.0 |
| Fundamentals | ||
| Description | A distributed graph database built by Twitter for storing adjacency lists, optimized for wide and shallow social graphs like follower relationships. Supports set arithmetic queries but intentionally avoids multi-hop graph traversal. | A polymorphic database that natively models inheritance hierarchies, dependencies, and conceptual schemas using its TypeQL query language. Supports clustering for scalability and a cloud-agnostic deployment model. |
| Vendor | Twitter (now X) | Vaticle |
| Model | Other | Other |
| Kind | database | database |
| Category | Established | Growing |
| First released | 2010-04 | 2016 |
| Status | inactive — Archived and unmaintained since 2017. Twitter is no longer responding to issues or PRs. | active |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MPL-2.0 |
| Written in | Scala | Rust |
| Query languages | Thrift API | TypeQL |
| gdotv support | no | no |
Feature scores — not surveyed for FlockDB
| Feature | FlockDB | TypeDB |
|---|---|---|
| Community & Business | ||
| Active development | — | ✓ |
| Commercial support | — | ✓ |
| Live community | — | ✓ |
| Open Source | — | ✓ |
| Pricing | — | ✓ |
| Trendiness | — | ✓ |
| Deployment | ||
| Containerization | — | ✓ |
| Work as dedicated instance | — | ✓ |
| Work as embedded | — | · |
| Testing in-memory version | — | ✓ |
| Platform | ||
| Operating on Linux | — | ✓ |
| Operating on Windows | — | ✓ |
| 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 | — | 0.5 |
| 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 | — | 0.5 |
| 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 | — | · |
Links
- FlockDB · website · github · full profile
- TypeDB · website · github · full profile