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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.84
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score10.63
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSpotifyFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20152013201320142013
Current release4.1.0, June 20229.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Java 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
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnono

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