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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hyprcubd vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hyprcubd vs. OpenTSDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. 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 FlinkCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Serverless Time Series DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orghyprcubd.com (offline)opentsdb.net
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatHyprcubd, Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2018201220142011
Current release1.1.0, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTgRPC (https)HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyeslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesnotoken accessno

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