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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. Titan

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 FlinkA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantignite.apache.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantapacheignite.readme.io/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20182018201020152012
Current release1.1.0, April 20230.9Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangC++, Java, .NetJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes
Triggersyesnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
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 infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkvia hugegraph-sparkyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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