Ascend vs. CData Python Connectors vs. Thingsboard vs. create-api.dev Comparison Chart

Ascend gives data teams a unified and automated platform to ingest, transform, and orchestrate their entire data engineering and analytics engineering workloads, 10X faster than ever before.​ Ascend helps gridlocked teams break through constraints to build, manage, and optimize the increasing number of data workloads required. Backed by DataAware intelligence, Ascend works continuously in the background to guarantee data integrity and optimize data workloads, reducing time spent on maintenance by up to 90%. Build, iterate on, and run data transformations easily with Ascend’s multi-language flex-code interface enabling the use of SQL, Python, Java, and, Scala interchangeably. Quickly view data lineage, data profiles, job and user logs, system health, and other critical workload metrics at a glance. Ascend delivers native connections to a growing library of common data sources with our Flex-Code data connectors.

It enables device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols - MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and supports both cloud and on-premises deployments. ThingsBoard combines scalability, fault-tolerance and performance so you will never lose your data. Provision, monitor and control your IoT entities in secure way using rich server-side APIs. Define relations between your devices, assets, customers or any other entities. Collect and store telemetry data in scalable and fault-tolerant way. Visualize your data with built-in or custom widgets and flexible dashboards. Share dashboards with your customers. Define data processing rule chains. Transform and normalize your device data. Raise alarms on incoming telemetry events, attribute updates, device inactivity and user actions. Construct your ThingsBoard cluster and get maximum scalability and fault-tolerance with microservices architecture. ThingsBoard also supports both cloud and on-premises deployments.