DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ

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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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Circonus LLC.

Alex Kashirin

TempoIQ

Initial release

2018

2017

2020

2012

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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 per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

simple authentication-based access control

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