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DBMS > Apache IoTDB vs. atoti vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache IoTDB vs. atoti vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

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NameApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.31
Rank#159  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#253  Overall
#13  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteiotdb.apache.orgatoti.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmldocs.atoti.iositewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationActiveViamSiteWhereSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201820102001
Current release1.1.0, April 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)noSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Native API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesPythonno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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