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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. XTDB

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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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CNRS

Embarcadero

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2013

1984

2019

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

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

yes, each node contains all data

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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