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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Access vs. SurrealDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 FlinkData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssurrealdb.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationChris DavisMicrosoftSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2018200619922022
Current release1.1.0, April 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC++Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
HTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes, based on authentication and database rules

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