DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Faircom EDGE vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

origodb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FairCom Corporation

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2015

2012

1979

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

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

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

when using SQL

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Role based authorization

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