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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. StarRocks

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2018

2014

2010

2020

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

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

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic 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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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