OxiRS vs SurrealDB
OxiRS is a rdf database; SurrealDB is a multiple database. OxiRS (2025-09, Apache-2.0, Rust) ranks #144 this month; SurrealDB (2022-07, BUSL-1.1, Rust) ranks #8.
| Attribute | OxiRS | SurrealDB |
|---|---|---|
| At a glance | ||
| Rank | #144 | #8 |
| Score | 15.4 | 65.8 |
| GitHub stars | 101 | 33.3k |
| Popularity | 32.6 | 74.2 |
| Activity | 57.5 | 63.3 |
| Community | 30.3 | 66.7 |
| Research | 51.0 | 52.2 |
| Fundamentals | ||
| Description | A modular Rust toolkit for RDF and SPARQL providing a Jena TDB-compatible storage engine (oxirs-tdb) with B+Tree indexes and ACID transactions, a SPARQL query engine (oxirs-arq), and a shared RDF data model (oxirs-core). | 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 | RDF | Multiple |
| Kind | library | database |
| Category | Emerging | Growing |
| First released | 2025-09 | 2022-07 |
| Status | active | active |
| License | Apache-2.0 | BUSL-1.1 |
| Written in | Rust | Rust |
| Query languages | SPARQL | SurrealQL, GraphQL, GQL |
| gdotv support | no | no |
Feature scores — not surveyed for OxiRS
| Feature | OxiRS | SurrealDB |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | ✓ |
| 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 | — | ✓ |
| 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 |
Links
- OxiRS · website · github · full profile
- SurrealDB · website · github · full profile