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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. InfinityDB vs. MonetDB vs. PlanetScale vs. RavenDB

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 FlinkA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#173  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgboilerbay.comwww.monetdb.orgplanetscale.comravendb.net
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationplanetscale.com/­docsravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.MonetDB BVPlanetScaleHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20182002200420202010
Current release1.1.0, April 20234.0Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCGoC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID at shard levelACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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