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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. JanusGraph vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiriDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.scylladb.com

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

ScyllaDB

Cesbit

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2018

2017

2015

2017

2009

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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