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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. VoltDB

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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

Spatial extension of H2

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	105.40
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CNRS

Embarcadero

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2018

2013

1984

1992

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
OS X

for development

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Java

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

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

based on H2

Interbase Change Views

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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