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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Neo4j vs. ObjectBox

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 FlinkHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Native XML DBMSGraph DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorybasex.orgneo4j.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.basex.orgneo4j.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperApache Software FoundationAtos Convergence CreatorsBaseX GmbHNeo4j, Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release20182016200720072017
Current release1.1.0, April 2023170310.7, August 20235.19, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalno infoXQuery supports typesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
LDAPJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
All languages with LDAP bindingsActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersyesyesyes infovia eventsyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infocell divisionnoneyes using Neo4j Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyesnoneCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlyonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)yes
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Apache IoTDBAtos Standard Common RepositoryBaseXNeo4jObjectBox
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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