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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Drizzle vs. Graphite

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperAmazonAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerChris Davis
Initial release20152012201320082006
Current release4.1.0, June 20227.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++Python
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBCHTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesAda
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/ODBCC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersyesnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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