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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiriDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SiriDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Yaacomo

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOpen Source Time Series DBMSA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsiridb.comvictoriametrics.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.siridb.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014CesbitVictoriaMetricsQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20182010201720182009
Current release1.1.0, April 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangCGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)hostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoNumeric datayes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)ShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSynchronous replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparkyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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