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System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. RavenDB vs. RDF4J vs. Splice Machine vs. SWC-DB

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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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

ravendb.net/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Hibernating Rhinos

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Splice Machine

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2010

2004

2014

2020

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

5.4, July 2022

3.1, March 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar 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

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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