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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. PouchDB 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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.31
Rank	#159	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

iotdb.apache.org

pouchdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

pouchdb.com/guides

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2018

2012

2001

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

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

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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 and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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