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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BaseX vs. Cassandra vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

basex.org

cassandra.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

BaseX GmbH

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2018

2016

2007

2008

1984

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

1703

11.0, June 2024

4.1.3, July 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

XQuery supports 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

LDAP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

All languages with LDAP bindings

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

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

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

multiple readers, single writer

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

LDAP bind authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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