DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. SAP IQ vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. SAP IQ vs. TigerGraph

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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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

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

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1980

1994

2017

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.6, May 2018

23c, September 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can be realized in PL/SQL

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

yes

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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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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