DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

siridb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Cesbit

Juxt Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

2019

2009

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

10 R1, October 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
macOS

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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