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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

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	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	51.58
Rank	#22	Overall
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Score	5.35
Rank	#77	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#210	Overall
	#33	Document stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.percona.com/software/mongodb/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/LATEST/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

FileMaker

a subsidiary of Apple

Chris Davis

Percona

Initial release

2018

1983

2006

2015

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Apache IoTDB (Internet of Things Database) is a time series data management system...
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Competitive advantages

Low Cost and High Performance Tens of million points write throughput High compression...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT / IIoT End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration Real-Time and Historian Time Series Analytics
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Key customers

Over 200 customers worldwide, including Bosch, Siemens, Komat'su, Alibaba, etc.
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Market metrics

185+ contributors and 10,000+ times monthly clones on GitHub Rank 7 by commits among...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source: Apache License v2.0 Pricing for commercial-/cloud-/edge-edition provided...
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