DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Transwarp

Initial release

2018

2015

2004

2011

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal 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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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