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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL vs. TerminusDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 FlinkFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted in-memory data gridMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
RDF store
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Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.h2database.comhazelcast.comhsqldb.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThomas MuellerHazelcastDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20182005200820012018
Current release1.1.0, April 20232.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 20232.7.2, June 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
JDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQLyes
Triggersyesyesyes infoEventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoReplicated MapnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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