TypeDB vs VelocityGraph
TypeDB is a other database; VelocityGraph is a property graph database. TypeDB (2016, MPL-2.0, Rust) ranks #7 this month; VelocityGraph (2013-05, Proprietary, C#) ranks #148.
| Attribute | TypeDB | VelocityGraph |
|---|---|---|
| At a glance | ||
| Rank | #7 | #148 |
| Score | 68.4 | 13.9 |
| GitHub stars | 4.5k | 84 |
| Popularity | 75.0 | 34.3 |
| Activity | 75.2 | 42.3 |
| Community | 63.3 | 30.3 |
| Research | 50.0 | 50.0 |
| Fundamentals | ||
| Description | 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. | An open-source .NET property graph layer built on top of the VelocityDB object database, implementing the Blueprints API via Frontenac. Supports embedded and distributed deployments with ACID transactions. |
| Vendor | Vaticle | VelocityDB Inc |
| Model | Other | Property Graph |
| Kind | database | extension |
| Category | Growing | Emerging |
| First released | 2016 | 2013-05 |
| Status | active | inactive — Last updated April 2021; single-person project with no recent activity |
| License | MPL-2.0 | Proprietary |
| Written in | Rust | C# |
| Query languages | TypeQL | LINQ |
| gdotv support | no | no |
Feature scores — not surveyed for VelocityGraph
| Feature | TypeDB | VelocityGraph |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- TypeDB · website · github · full profile
- VelocityGraph · website · github · full profile