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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. H2GIS vs. Neo4j vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 H2Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgneo4j.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmltinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeneo4j.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCNRSNeo4j, Inc.SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20182013200719922009
Current release1.1.0, April 20235.19, April 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-free
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Java.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2yes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handleryesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneyes using Neo4j Fabricnonenone
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 H2Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyCausal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on H2Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Apache IoTDBH2GISNeo4jSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsNeo4j delivers graph technology that has been battle tested for performance and scale...
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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