DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Druid vs. EDB Postgres vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Druid vs. EDB Postgres vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

druid.apache.org

www.enterprisedb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

EnterpriseDB

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2005

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

14, December 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

yes

schema-free

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java 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

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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