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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. KairosDB vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

manual.manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Manticore Software

Initial release

2018

2013

2017

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

Using Apache Lucene

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 password-based access control

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