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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Linter

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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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.40
Rank	#148	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.70
Rank	#92	Overall
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

hsqldb.org

linter.ru

Technical documentation

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

relex.ru

Initial release

2018

2001

1990

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

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

none

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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