DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/redshift

sql.js.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2012

2008

2012

2020

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

JavaScript

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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