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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Riak KV vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Riak KV vs. TimescaleDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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, fault tolerant key-value storeA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#176  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.87
Rank#74  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgphoenix.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlphoenix.apache.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTimescale
Initial release20182014201420092017
Current release1.1.0, April 20235.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.2.0, December 20222.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaErlangC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
JDBCHTTP RESTHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoErlanguser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infono "single point of failure"yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
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 Cassandraselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and SparkHadoop integrationnoyesno
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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