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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, Sybase

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

2005

1987

2014

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

16.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

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

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

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

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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