DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Cubrid vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Cubrid vs. GBase vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SiteWhere

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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

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.gbase.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

cubrid.org/manuals

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

IBM

SiteWhere

Initial release

2018

2008

2004

2017

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

11.0, January 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

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

Source-replica replication

yes

Active-active shard replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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