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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Heroic vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Heroic vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph vs. VoltDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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 FlinkTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.tigergraph.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20182014201720092010
Current release1.1.0, April 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (GSQL)noyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesnoJava
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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