DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databricks

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Databricks

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.databricks.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.databricks.com

Developer

Amazon

Databricks

Initial release

2015

2012

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with Databricks SQL

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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