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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. EJDB vs. Firebolt vs. Hive vs. mSQL

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhousedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.firebolt.iohive.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.firebolt.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSoftmotionsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHughes Technologies
Initial release20182012202020121994
Current release1.1.0, April 20233.1.3, April 20224.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)server-lesshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
in-process shared library.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnonedepending on storage layerselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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