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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Graph Engine vs. SAP HANA

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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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.graphengine.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2018

2014

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

5.0.1, July 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

.NET and C

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

.NET

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

yes

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

depending on storage layer

yes

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

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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