DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. MaxDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. MaxDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimesTen

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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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

maxdb.sap.com

terminusdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

DataChemist Ltd.

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

2010

1984

2018

1998

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Graph Partitioning

none

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

Journaling Streams

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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