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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch vs. Graph Engine vs. HBase

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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 widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA 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 metricA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.graphengine.iohbase.apache.org
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGElasticMicrosoftApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20182009201020102008
Current release1.1.0, April 20233.10.0, March 20228.6, January 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava.NET and CJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM.NETLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
JCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Java.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyesyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and SparknoES-Hadoop Connectoryes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyes
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 controlyesnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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