DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. Immudb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon Redshift vs. H2 vs. Immudb vs. STSdb

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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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.50
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#307	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2database.com

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.immudb.io

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Thomas Mueller

Codenotary

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2012

2005

2020

2011

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.3, April 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like syntax

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

.NET Client API

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

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

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)

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

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