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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. Spark SQL vs. TypeDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  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 FlinkSpatial extension of H2Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasespark.apache.org/­sqltypedb.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCNRSEmbarcaderoApache Software FoundationVaticle
Initial release20182013198420142016
Current release1.1.0, April 2023InterBase 2020, December 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyes infobased on H2Interbase Change ViewsnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Apache IoTDBH2GISInterbaseSpark SQLTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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