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

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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

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

aws.amazon.com/redshift

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Huawei and openGauss community

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2012

2019

2006

Current release

3.0, March 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

ANSI SQL 2011

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

C
C++
Java

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

optimistic locking

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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