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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. BoltDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2013

2011

2000

2020

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

24.1, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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