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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SiriDB vs. Valentina Server

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#121	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

siridb.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

docs.siridb.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Percona

Cesbit

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2018

1989

2008

2017

1999

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0.36-28, 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

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

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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