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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Datomic vs. Ignite

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  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 scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#126  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.datomic.comignite.apache.org
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlphoenix.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationCognitectApache Software Foundation
Initial release2018201420122015
Current release1.1.0, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.0.6735, June 2023Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, ClojureC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
JDBCRESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Shardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and SparkHadoop integrationnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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