DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. MySQL vs. openGauss vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. MySQL vs. openGauss 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

Widely used open source RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	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

www.mysql.com

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGauss community

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2015

2012

1995

2019

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

.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

C
C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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