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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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 FlinkA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGChris DavisSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release20182009200620142016
Current release1.1.0, April 20233.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaPythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
JCacheHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononoTransact SQL
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)noneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoyes

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