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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. H2GIS vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

Spatial extension of H2

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#355	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

arcadedb.com

www.h2gis.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.arcadedb.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Arcade Data

CNRS

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2021

2013

2009

1987

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

September 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java

Groovy
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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