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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Newts

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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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2018

2010

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
Java API

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

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

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

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