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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. dBASE vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sequoiadb

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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

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	10.34
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Asthon Tate

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2018

1979

2011

2013

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HTTP API
Telnet API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

dBase proprietary IDE

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

Sharding

based on HBase

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

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

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

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Access rights for users and roles

simple password-based access control

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