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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. EDB Postgres vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. EDB Postgres vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datomic.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datomic.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAmazonAmazonCognitectEnterpriseDBTranswarp
Initial release2015201220122005
Current release1.0.6735, June 202314, December 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or range
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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