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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. DataFS vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

newdatabase.com

sphinxsearch.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Mobiland AG

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2018

2001

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

1.1.263, October 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Proprietary protocol

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

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

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

Windows-Profile

yes

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