TypeDB vs ZipG
Both are other databases. TypeDB (2016, MPL-2.0, Rust) ranks #7 this month; ZipG (2017, C++) ranks #83. They differ on 29 of 46 surveyed features.
| Attribute | TypeDB | ZipG |
|---|---|---|
| At a glance | ||
| Rank | #7 | #83 |
| Score | 68.4 | 40.3 |
| GitHub stars | 4.5k | 13 |
| Popularity | 75.0 | 34.0 |
| Activity | 75.2 | 37.4 |
| Community | 63.3 | 49.3 |
| Research | 50.0 | 53.0 |
| 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. | A research prototype graph store that executes queries directly on a compressed graph representation for memory efficiency. Lacks traditional database features such as transactions and replication. |
| Vendor | Vaticle | — |
| Model | Other | Other |
| Kind | database | embedded |
| Category | Growing | Emerging |
| First released | 2016 | 2017 |
| Status | active | inactive — Academic research prototype from AMPLab Berkeley. No active development. |
| License | MPL-2.0 | — |
| Written in | Rust | C++ |
| Query languages | TypeQL | Custom API |
| gdotv support | no | no |
Feature scores 29 of 46 rows differ
| Feature | TypeDB | ZipG |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ✓ | 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 | 0.5 | 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
- ZipG · github · full profile