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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. Ignite vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 FlinkData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
ignite.apache.orgrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationChris DavisBaiduApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20182006201820152009
Current release1.1.0, April 20230.9Apache Ignite 2.62.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++, Java, .NetC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)Client-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknovia hugegraph-sparkyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoUsers, roles and permissionsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousers and table-level permissions

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