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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. LokiJS vs. SingleStore

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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 distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

kylin.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

kylin.apache.org/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2018

2015

2014

2013

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.1.0, July 2020

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, Go

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

64 bit version required

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

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

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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