DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. HarperDB vs. mSQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. HarperDB vs. mSQL vs. Transbase

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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 scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

phoenix.apache.org

www.harperdb.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

HarperDB

Hughes Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2014

2017

1994

1987

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

3.1, August 2021

4.4, October 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

none

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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 specific operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

yes

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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