Description of Apache IoTDB from https://iotdb.apache.org/:
“Apache IoTDB (Database for Internet of Things) is an IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud. Due to its light-weight architecture, high performance and rich feature set together with its deep integration with Apache Hadoop, Spark and Flink, Apache IoTDB can meet the requirements of massive data storage, high-speed data ingestion and complex data analysis in the IoT industrial fields.”
Support for Apache IoTDB as the WAII data store is implemented by connector code in the WAII service manager, which connects WAII to an external Apache IoTDB server. This code uses the IoTDB Go client to maintain a connection session to the IoTDB server, which is then used to get/set vehicle data from the database.
As WAII and the IoTDB server are separate processes WAII needs to be told where to find the IoTDB server and which storage prefix to use to access the data. The administration of the Apache IoTDB server itself, including startup and shutdown, is out of scope and is handled externally to WAII.
Runtime assumptions:
Handling of IoTDB server and timeseries management is placed outside of WAII to allow flexible deployment through loosely coupled connections.
The connector assumes a simple key/value pair schema for accessing VSS data in an IoTDB timeseries:
VSS node names (keys) are backtick quoted when stored as measurement keys in the database e.g. `Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Longitude`
. This avoids IoTDB interpreting the VSS tree path, here Vehicle.CurrentLocation.
, as part of its storage path which also uses a dot notation.
VSS data is stored using native (IoTDB) data types rather than strings.
That the timeseries containing VSS nodes can be found using the prefix path specified in the config file.
Example timeseries:
+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+--------+--------+
| Time| Timeseries| Value|DataType|
+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+--------+--------+
|2024-03-07T17:55:24.514Z| root.test2.dev1.`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Longitude`|-42.4567| FLOAT|
+------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+--------+--------+
The connection code reads its runtime configuration from the JSON formatted file iotdb-config.json
located in the vissv2server directory. All values should be specified.
Key name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
host |
String | Hostname or IP address of the IoTDB server |
port |
String | RPC port of the server. Default is 6667 |
username |
String | Username to access the server. Default is root |
password |
String | Password to access the server. Default is root |
queryPrefixPath |
String | Timeseries prefix path of VSS data in the database |
queryTimeout(ms) |
Int | Query timeout in milliseconds |
Example iotdb-config.json
:
{
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"port": "6667",
"username": "root",
"password": "root",
"queryPrefixPath": "root.test2.dev1",
"queryTimeout(ms)": 5000
}
The connector writes information, warning and error messages to the WAII server log with the prefix IoTDB
. Grepping in the log for that prefix string can help you quickly identify connector messages.
The following notes are intended to help you quickly try out using Apache IoTDB as a data store.
The Apache IoTDB project website has extensive documentation on the IoTDB server.
The Apache IoTDB community maintains pre-built server images upstream to download. Including containerised Docker images in Docker Hub. IoTDB is available in both standalone (edge) and cluster (cloud) versions. Standalone is suggested as a starting point.
The COVESA Central Data Service Playground provides a Docker deployment that combines an Apache IoTDB server (data store) with the WAII VISS data server.
To seed the database with VSS data the typical steps are:
IoTDB has a very extensive collection of integrations, tools, clients and APIs that could be used to achieve this.
The following tutorial shows an example using the IoTDB CLI client, using two methods. Firstly, in interactive mode where you type the commands and then sending the same commands in batch command mode.
$ bash <iotdb path>/sbin/start-cli.sh -h <server hostname/ip>
IoTDB > create database root.test2.dev1
IoTDB > CREATE ALIGNED TIMESERIES root.test2.dev1(`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Longitude` FLOAT, `Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Latitude` FLOAT, `Vehicle.Cabin.Infotainment.HMI.DistanceUnit` TEXT)
4 Add some data into the timeseries:
IoTDB> insert into root.test2.dev1(`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Longitude`, `Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Latitude`, `Vehicle.Cabin.Infotainment.HMI.DistanceUnit`) values(-42.4567, 22.1234, 'MILES')
IoTDB> select last * from root.test2.dev1
+------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+--------+--------+
| Time| Timeseries| Value|DataType|
+------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+--------+--------+
|2024-03-07T17:55:24.514Z| root.test2.dev1.`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Longitude`|-42.4567| FLOAT|
|2024-03-07T17:55:24.514Z|root.test2.dev1.`Vehicle.Cabin.Infotainment.HMI.DistanceUnit`| MILES| TEXT|
|2024-03-07T17:55:24.514Z| root.test2.dev1.`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Latitude`| 22.1234| FLOAT|
+------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------+--------+--------+
You have now seeded the database with some initial VSS data and can use WAII to query it.
The CLI client startup script accepts SQL commands using the -e
parameter. We can therefore use this to codify the above in a bash script. So the VSS node names (keys) are passed correctly on the command line the backticks must be escaped.
For example:
# !/bin/bash
host=127.0.0.1
rpcPort=6667
user=root
pass=root
bash ./sbin/start-cli.sh -h ${host} -p ${rpcPort} -u ${user} -pw ${pass} -e "create database root.test2.dev1"
bash ./sbin/start-cli.sh -h ${host} -p ${rpcPort} -u ${user} -pw ${pass} -e "CREATE ALIGNED TIMESERIES root.test2.dev1(\`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Longitude\` FLOAT, \`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Latitude\` FLOAT, \`Vehicle.Cabin.Infotainment.HMI.DistanceUnit\` TEXT)"
bash ./sbin/start-cli.sh -h ${host} -p ${rpcPort} -u ${user} -pw ${pass} -e "insert into root.test2.dev1(\`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Longitude\`, \`Vehicle.CurrentLocation.Latitude\`, \`Vehicle.Cabin.Infotainment.HMI.DistanceUnit\`) values(-42.4567, 22.1234, 'MILES')"
bash ./sbin/start-cli.sh -h ${host} -p ${rpcPort} -u ${user} -pw ${pass} -e "select last * from root.test2.dev1"
Of course any of the programming language clients provided by IoTDB, e.g. go, python, C++, Rust, can also be used to achieve the same result.
Please see the notes in the source commit messages and related Github pull requests for the history of the development of the Apache IoTDB connection code and its integration into the WAII Service Manager component.
Development followed the patterns set by the existing support for Redis and SQLite.
The connection code was first developed with Apache IoTDB v1.2.2, using the upstream standalone pre-built image and Apache IoTDB Go Client v1.1.7.