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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. EJDB vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SpatiaLite

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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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.31
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	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

2012

1994

2021

2008

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

none

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

yes

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

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