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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. YottaDB vs. YTsaurus

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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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

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

yottadb.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

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

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

YottaDB, LLC

Yandex

Initial release

2018

1989

2001

2023

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

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
Windows

Docker
Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

by using the Octo plugin

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

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

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

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

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

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

optimistic locking

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 and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

Access Control Lists

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