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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. IBM Db2 vs. Trafodion

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 FlinkFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisIBMApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2018198320061983 infohost version2014
Current release1.1.0, April 202319.4.1, November 202112.1, October 20162.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infovia pluginsnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
PHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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