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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. MongoDB vs. openGauss

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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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.70
Rank	#244	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	458.78
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.19
Rank	#196	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.mongodb.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.mongodb.com/manual

gitee.com/opengauss/docs
opengauss.org/en/docs/latest/docs/BriefTutorial/BriefTutorial.html

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

MongoDB, Inc

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2018

2009

2019

Current release

V1.0.1, February 2023

6.0.1, August 2022

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

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

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Apache IoTDB (Internet of Things Database) is a time series data management system...
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Competitive advantages

Low Cost and High Performance Tens of million points write throughput High compression...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT / IIoT End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration Real-Time and Historian Time Series Analytics
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Key customers

Over 200 customers worldwide, including Bosch, Siemens, Komat'su, Alibaba, etc.
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Market metrics

240+ contributors and 10,000+ times monthly clones on GitHub Rank 2 by commits among...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source: Apache License v2.0 Pricing for commercial-/cloud-/edge-edition provided...
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