DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. atoti vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. Typesense

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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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

iotdb.apache.org

atoti.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opennms.github.io/newts

typesense.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.atoti.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ActiveViam

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2018

2014

2015

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free versions available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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