DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Druid vs. EXASOL vs. FileMaker vs. Snowflake

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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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

druid.apache.org

www.exasol.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.exasol.com/resources

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Exasol

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2000

1983

2014

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

19.4.1, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

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

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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

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