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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache IoTDB vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn 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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#126  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.26
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgiotdb.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20122018198420111998
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.1.0, April 20237.9.10.12, February 2024Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languageyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Telnet API
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesyesnoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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