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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. STSdb

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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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

greptime.com

www.hawkular.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.greptime.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Greptime Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2018

2022

2014

2011

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

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Licensing and pricing models

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