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Amazon Aurora System Properties

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	9.46
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

Developer

Amazon

Initial release

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

AWS Announces Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12 (infoq.com)
7 February 2021, InfoQ.com

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4 March 2021, InfoQ.com

Amazon launches new failover options with Aurora Global Database
19 February 2021, Continuity Central

Microsoft Ignite Data and Analytics roundup: Platform extensions are the key theme
2 March 2021, ZDNet

Surging Cloud Databases Will Blow Past Legacy DB in Mega Platform Shift
22 February 2021, Cloud Wars

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