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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache IoTDB vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

iotdb.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mireo.com/spacetime

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

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

Developer

Altibase

Apache Software Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Mireo

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1999

2018

1994

2020

2018

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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