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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

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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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

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

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FairCom Corporation

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2018

1979

2005

2013

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

V3, October 2020

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Sharding

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

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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