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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Citus vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  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 FlinkScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLSpatial extension of H2Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational 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
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.citusdata.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCNRSEmbarcadero
Initial release2018201020131984
Current release1.1.0, April 20238.1, December 2018InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infobased on H2yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infobased on H2Interbase Change Views
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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