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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. FileMaker vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational 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	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Hughes Technologies

Mireo

Initial release

2018

1983

1994

2020

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

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)

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

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

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

none

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

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

yes

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