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

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

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 ScioreAnalytic DBMS for HadoopDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storerethinkdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storerethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaIBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20152007201320172009
Current release4.1.0, June 20222.02.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 automaticallyyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
TriggersyesnononoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factorActive-active shard replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
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, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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