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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. DolphinDB vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2011

2018

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

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)

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph 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

yes

none

Journaling Streams

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Role-based access control

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