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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

nsdb.io

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Baidu

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2018

2015

2018

2017

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

0.9

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

Java, Scala

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

also supports composite index and range index

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Groovy
Java
Python

Java
Scala

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

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