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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Informix

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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

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Score	0.41
Rank	#253	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.16
Rank	#34	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

Technical documentation

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Initial release

2018

1984

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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Specific characteristics

Apache IoTDB (Internet of Things Database) is a time series data management system...
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Competitive advantages

Low Cost and High Performance Tens of million points write throughput High compression...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT / IIoT End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration Real-Time and Historian Time Series Analytics
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Key customers

Over 200 customers worldwide, including Bosch, Siemens, Komat'su, Alibaba, etc.
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Market metrics

185+ contributors and 10,000+ times monthly clones on GitHub Rank 7 by commits among...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source: Apache License v2.0 Pricing for commercial-/cloud-/edge-edition provided...
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