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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. atoti vs. FatDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

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 in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.atoti.io

docs.scylladb.com

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ActiveViam

FatCloud

ScyllaDB

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2012

2015

2013

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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)

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

yes

via applications

yes, Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple password-based access control

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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