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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  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 embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCognitectGoogleChris Davis
Initial release20182013201220152006
Current release1.1.0, April 20231.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, ClojurePython
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoNumeric data only
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 indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
GoClojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
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 infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDAtomic single-row operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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