Graphflow vs TypeDB
Graphflow is a property graph database; TypeDB is a other database. Graphflow (2017, MIT, Java) ranks #147 this month; TypeDB (2016, MPL-2.0, Rust) ranks #9. They differ on 26 of 46 surveyed features.
| Attribute | Graphflow | TypeDB |
|---|---|---|
| At a glance | ||
| Rank | #147 | #9 |
| Score | 13.1 | 63.6 |
| GitHub stars | 28 | 4.4k |
| Popularity | 14.2 | 68.7 |
| Activity | 23.3 | 77.7 |
| Community | 30.6 | 66.4 |
| Research | 76.3 | 49.6 |
| Fundamentals | ||
| Description | A research prototype in-memory property graph database supporting both one-time and continuous subgraph queries. Extends openCypher with trigger support. Succeeded by Kuzu. | 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 | University of Waterloo | Vaticle |
| Model | Property Graph | Other |
| Kind | database | database |
| Category | Emerging | Growing |
| First released | 2017 | 2016 |
| Status | deprecated — Research prototype from University of Waterloo. Succeeded by Kuzu. | active |
| License | MIT | MPL-2.0 |
| Written in | Java | Rust |
| Query languages | openCypher | TypeQL |
| gdotv support | no | no |
Feature scores 26 of 46 rows differ
| Feature | Graphflow | 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 | 0.5 | ✓ |
| 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 | 0.5 | ✓ |
| Object-Graph Mapper | · | · |
| Reactive programming | · | ✓ |
| Documentation up-to-date | · | ✓ |
| Binary protocol | · | ✓ |
| CLI | ✓ | ✓ |
| GUI | · | ✓ |
| Data Model | ||
| Multi-database | · | · |
| Graph-native data | ✓ | · |
| REST API | · | · |
| Query Language | 0.75 | 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
- Graphflow · github · full profile
- TypeDB · website · github · full profile