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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­simpledbcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographimpala.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAmazonAmazonCambridge SemanticsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIBM
Initial release20152007201820132017
Current release2.3, January 20214.1.0, June 20222.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregatesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationAutomatic shardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factorActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoKerberos/HDFS data loadingyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infonot needed in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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