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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ignite.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

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

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Baidu

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2010

2015

1992

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

0.9

Apache Ignite 2.6

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

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

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

via hugegraph-spark

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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