DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GridDB vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GridDB 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

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

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

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#128	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/redshift

griddb.net

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.griddb.net

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

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Toshiba Corporation

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2015

2012

2013

2019

Current release

5.1, August 2022

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

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

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

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

ACID at container level

ACID

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 can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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