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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

nsdb.io

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

ObjectBox Limited

Yanza

Initial release

2018

2017

2015

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
macOS

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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 fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

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

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

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

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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