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

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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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	1.45
Rank	#143	Overall
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.98
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#239	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

www.graphengine.io

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2009

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

.NET and C

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JCache

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

by using Terracotta Server

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

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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