DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. YottaDB

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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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

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

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2018

1995

1984

2001

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

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 replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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