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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Graphite vs. openGauss

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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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Chris Davis

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2015

2012

2006

2019

Current release

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

locking

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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