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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	1.18
Rank	#173	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

iotdb.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2018

2014

Current release

2.3, January 2021

1.1.0, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
Native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

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 and roles

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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