Apache IoTDB vs Warp 10
Apache IoTDB
iotdb.apache.org
Warp 10
warp10.ioSide by side
| Figure | Apache IoTDB | Warp 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 1 |
| Spec score · Time-Series Databases | 9.1 (#2) | 8.1 (#16) |
| Access control | IoTDB supports users, roles and path-scoped privileges such as READ, WRITE and SECURITY, with authentication by username and password. | Warp 10's security mechanisms use cryptographic tokens, and its documentation describes separate READ and WRITE tokens for controlling access to data. |
| Deployment | The project describes cloud installation, a desktop terminal tool, and a data synchronization tool connecting cloud and on-premise machines. | Warp 10 is available in Standalone, Standalone+, and Distributed versions; the versions differ mainly in how the storage engine is implemented. |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include Telegraf, NiFi, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Zeppelin, Grafana, DataEase, DBeaver and ThingsBoard. | The platform can fetch data from SQL and NoSQL databases, document stores, other time series databases, and monitoring platforms. |
| Product | Apache IoTDB is an industrial IoT time-series database for collecting, storing, managing, and analyzing IoT time-series data with edge-cloud collaboration. | Warp 10 describes itself as a time series platform for storing and analyzing time series and Geo Time Series data. |
| Support | The project points users to QQ, WeChat, and Slack community channels and a developer mailing list for questions and help. | Warp 10 documentation directs users to its community Slack to report issues or missing documentation. |
Plans
In their own words
Apache IoTDB
Apache IoTDB is an open-source industrial IoT time-series database for collecting, storing, managing, and analyzing device data across edge and cloud deployments. The project describes high-speed writes for millions of networked devices alongside fast reads. Query features include aligning time across devices and sensors, time-series computation, and aggregation by time dimensions. Ingestion options include IoTDB-SQL, JDBC, Java, C++, Python, and Go native APIs, REST, MQTT, CSV, and TsFile. Named analysis ecosystem examples include Hadoop, Spark, Flink, and Grafana. Deployment options include cloud installation, a desktop terminal tool, and synchronization between cloud and on-premise machines. The REST service is disabled by default and uses Basic Authentication except for the health check endpoint. Data and cluster permissions can be managed through users, roles, and privileges. The homepage states disk storage can cost less than $0.23 per GB. The project lists energy, aerospace, transportation, steel, and other IoT scenarios. Its JDBC documentation cautions that insert operations may not provide high-performance writing and recommends the Java Native API for Java applications.
Warp 10
Warp 10 is a free, open-source platform for collecting, storing, and analyzing time series and Geo Time Series data, including sensor data. It runs as a server that accepts HTTP requests for ingestion and WarpScript execution, and supports API, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and self-hosted deployments. The platform is available in Standalone, Standalone+, and Distributed versions whose main difference is storage-engine implementation. Standalone uses LevelDB and is described as suitable for a few tens of millions of time series and a few hundreds of billions of datapoints; larger needs are directed to Distributed, which uses FoundationDB. Warp 10 includes more than 1,300 time-series functions. Installation can use binaries on your infrastructure or a Docker image containing Warp 10, WarpStudio, and Sensision. Integrations include Jupyter, Zeppelin, Spark, Flink, MQTT, BACNet, NodeRed, NiFi, SQL and NoSQL sources, Grafana, and PowerBI. Ingestion supports HTTP POST, WebSocket, UDP, MQTT, and Kafka. Cryptographic READ and WRITE tokens control access, and metadata encryption is enabled by default.