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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. BaseX vs. Heroic vs. SAP IQ

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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

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

basex.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.basex.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

Spotify

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2007

2014

1994

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

10.7, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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)

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

none

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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