Data ingestion and storage performance of IoT platforms: study of OpenIoT

Internet of Things is a very active research area with great commercialisation potential. The number of IoT platforms is already exceeding 300 and still growing. However, performance evaluation and benchmarking of IoT platforms are still in their infancy. As a step towards developing a performance benchmarking approach for IoT platforms, this paper analyses and compares a number of popular IoT platforms from data ingestion and storage capability perspectives. In order to test the proposed approach, we use the widely used open source IoT platform, OpenIoT. The results of the experiments and the lessons learnt are presented and discussed. While having a great research promise and pioneering contribution to semantic interoperability of IoT silos, the experimental results indicate OpenIoT platform needs more development effort to be ready for any substantial deployment in commercial IoT applications.