DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Derby vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Derby vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

db.apache.org/derby

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

Initial release

2018

1997

2018

2014

2010

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

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

none

yes

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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