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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. chDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Hawkular Metrics

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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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

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

doc.chdb.io

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2018

2023

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Password-based authentication

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