TypeDB Learning Center

Learning center for TypeDB & TypeQL

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Introduction to TypeDB

Learn what makes TypeDB unique, and why it was developed. Includes introductory material for those looking to understand the features and advantages that TypeDB brings to database engineering.

Explore fundamentals

What is TypeDB

Introduction to the unique features that sets TypeDB apart from other databases and the design philosophy behind them.

Crash course: RBAC in Business

Learn TypeDB hands-on by building and querying an RBAC schema from scratch.

Setting up

Deploy a TypeDB server and install a TypeDB client. Includes easy setup guides for those looking to get started with TypeDB, for learning, development, or production.

Installation

Connect to your TypeDB deployment with TypeDB Studio, TypeDB Console, or official drivers in Rust, Python, Java, Node.js, C#, and more.

Quickstart

Follow an easy guide to start a TypeDB server, connect with TypeDB Studio, define a database schema, insert some data, and run some sample queries.

Building your first application

Start using TypeDB's native language drivers for application development. Includes guided tutorials for those who are comfortable with the basics of TypeDB and are looking to build an application.

Rust

Start building applications with the official TypeDB Rust driver.

Python

Start building applications with the official TypeDB Python driver.

TypeScript (HTTP)

Start building applications with the official TypeDB TypeScript HTTP driver.

Java

Start building applications with the official TypeDB Java driver.

C#

Start building applications with the official TypeDB C# driver.

C

Start building applications with the official TypeDB C driver.

Applications and use cases

Read about how TypeDB can be applied to solve diverse challenges across a wide range of industries. Includes technical articles for those looking to understand the unique applications of TypeDB, and the advantages for cross-industry use cases.

Modeling Inheritance in the Database

Learn how inheritance hierarchies of entity, relation, and attribute types can be easily modeled using TypeDB.

Navigating Multi-Way Relationships with TypeDB

How to describe relations between more than two entities in an intuitive and maintainable manner using TypeDB.

Building Enhanced Knowledge Graphs with TypeDB

Learn how to build more expressive knowledge graphs, and improve accuracy for retrieval-augmented generation tasks.

The theory behind TypeDB

Read about the foundations of TypeDB and TypeQL, and the philosophy that has gone into their design. Includes technical articles for those looking to explore the core ideas behind TypeDB's design, and understand the underlying type-theoretic principles.

Watch lectures

Why We Need a New High-level Database Programming Model

Current database technology has structural shortcomings, causing a long list of issues that developers should not need to live with.

A Quick Overview of TypeDB's Data Model

Learn about the conceptual Polymorphic Entity-Relation-Attribute model that backs TypeDB and TypeQL, and how it subsumes and surpasses previous database models.

TypeDB: a New Kind of Database

Explore TypeDB's core features in detail, including validated polymorphic data models and declarative querying, and learn about their impact on database engineering.

Type Theory as the Unifying Foundation for Modern Databases

Discover the powerful unification of paradigms backed by modern type-theoretic mathematics, laying a novel foundation for modern database applications.

TypeQL: a Type-Theoretic and Polymorphic Query Language

Read the preprint of the paradigm-defining paper behind TypeQL, due to be published in Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data.

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Deploy locally or in the cloud and start building now, or explore more about TypeDB and how its unique capabilities as a polymorphic database can refine and empower your applications.

Start building with TypeDB

Cloud or container, a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping system, and a type-theoretic language is minutes away.

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