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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. GridDB vs. MonetDB

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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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

griddb.net

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.griddb.net

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Toshiba Corporation

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2018

2013

2004

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

5.1, August 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

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

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

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 can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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