DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx

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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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.84
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2016

1984

2001

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

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#
Java
PHP

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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)

yes

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