DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Dgraph vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery

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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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io

fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

dgraph.io/docs

docs.fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Initial release

2015

2012

2016

2014

2010

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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)

Planned for future releases

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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