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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. GBase vs. Hive vs. VelocityDB

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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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2018

2004

2012

2011

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.1.3, April 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Any that supports .NET

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

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

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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