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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. FileMaker vs. MySQL vs. RisingWave

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mysql.com

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2018

1983

1995

2022

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

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

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and Roles

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