DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. Realm vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

iotdb.apache.org

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2018

2014

2010

2011

2012

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

none

yes

none

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

yes

none

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

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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