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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  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 ScioreDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storeazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdgraph.io/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAmazonAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.IBMMicrosoft
Initial release20152007201620172012
Current release2.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageGoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 automaticallyyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyesno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSynchronous replication via RaftActive-active shard replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate 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 applicationACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
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.yesyesno
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)no infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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