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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. EXASOL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. EXASOL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  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 assetsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.exasol.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElasticExasolPercona
Initial release20182016201020002015
Current release1.1.0, April 20238.6, January 20233.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingShardingShardingSharding
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 factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and SparknoES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoHadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyesyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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