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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 FlinkA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageSpatial DBMS
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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
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20182018201020132009
Current release1.1.0, April 20230.92.7.6, April 20242.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
macOS
Unix
hostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data and Stringsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesnoyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
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 HBaseShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding inforange based
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
selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkvia hugegraph-sparkyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsyes infousers and table-level permissions
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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