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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. GBase vs. HarperDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. GBase vs. HarperDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  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 durabilityWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnwww.harperdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datomic.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonAmazonCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HarperDB
Initial release20152012201220042017
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial infofree community edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonNode.js
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesyesdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoJSON data types
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like data manipulation statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
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
C#.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1
TriggersyesnoBy using transaction functionsyesno
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 (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes, using LMDB
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 developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyesAccess rights for users and roles

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