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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. BigchainDB vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RethinkDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 FlinkBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#183  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#210  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#110  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20182016201320142009
Current release1.1.0, April 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
GoC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
TriggersyesnonoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingnoneShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factornoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesnoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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