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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. EDB Postgres

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	13.28
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	26.17
Rank	#31	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	2.13
Rank	#124	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.enterprisedb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.enterprisedb.com/edb-docs

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

EnterpriseDB

Initial release

2015

2012

2005

Current release

14, December 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source 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

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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Specific characteristics

PostgreSQL with added Security, Performance, DBA, Developer, and Oracle compatibile...
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Competitive advantages

Complete Postgres platform with enterprise-class Postgres, Management, Integration,...
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Typical application scenarios

New applications for transactional, reporting and mixed workloads that need to integrate...
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Key customers

MasterCard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ericsson, AT&T, Alibaba, Korea Telecom and...
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Market metrics

Listed in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2013-2018 with over 4,000 customers.
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source and Commercial core based licensing.
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