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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Elasticsearch vs. Interbase vs. NebulaGraph

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score2.14
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.nebula-graph.io
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationElasticEmbarcaderoVesoft Inc.
Initial release20182014201019842019
Current release1.1.0, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20198.6, January 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesInterbase Change ViewsCausal Clustering using Raft protocol
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and SparkHadoop integrationES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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Apache IoTDBApache PhoenixElasticsearchInterbaseNebulaGraph
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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