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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant

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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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cognitect

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2018

2012

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

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

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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