How many client SDK or protocol that Apache IoTDB supports?

Question

I'm trying to test IoTDB 0.11.4 on my local PC. Besides the java and python client, is there any other languages SDK supported? Like c#, erlang or golang...

Answer 1

welcome on StackOverflow. Indeed, as the Communication between the Client and the IoTDB Server is based on Apache Thrift (https://thrift.apache.org/) it is convenient to develop other Clients.

Currently there exists:

• C++ (https://github.com/apache/iotdb/tree/master/client-cpp)
• Python (https://pypi.org/project/apache-iotdb/ / https://github.com/apache/iotdb/tree/master/client-py)
• Go (https://github.com/apache/iotdb-client-go)

If there is another language that you like to see supported you are very welcome to join the development team and start based on the Thrift definitions here: https://github.com/apache/iotdb/blob/master/thrift/src/main/thrift/rpc.thrift (that is the complete communication protocol between client and server). Some more information can also be found in the documentation here: http://iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/Communication-Service-Protocol/Programming-Thrift.html. The documentation itself states

Thrift is a remote procedure call software framework for the development of extensible and cross-language services. It combines a powerful software stack and code generation engine, In order to build seamlessly integrated and efficient services among programming languages ​​such as C++, Java, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, C#, Cocoa, JavaScript, Node.js, Smalltalk, and OCaml.

IoTDB server and client use thrift for communication. In actual use, it is recommended to use the native client package provided by IoTDB: Session or Session Pool. If you have special needs, you can also program directly against the RPC interface