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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Graphite vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

graphite.readthedocs.io

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Chris Davis

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2006

2011

2013

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

24.1, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
Unix

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

HTTP API
Sockets

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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