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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Badger vs. Sphinx vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 FlinkAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#328  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgersphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgersphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDGraph LabsSphinx Technologies Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2018201720012020
Current release1.1.0, April 20233.5.1, February 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
GoC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono

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