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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. OpenSearch

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  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 HBaseHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#125  Overall
#59  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storegithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storeopensearch.org/­docs/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatIBMAmazon Web Services
Initial release20182014201420172021
Current release1.1.0, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20192.02.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
JDBCHTTP RESTADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
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
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraActive-active shard replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and SparkHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Apache IoTDBApache PhoenixHawkular MetricsIBM Db2 Event StoreOpenSearch
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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