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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. Databend vs. Informix vs. KairosDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.databend.cominformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
kairosdb.github.io
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDatabend LabsIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.
Initial release20152013202119842013
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.0.59, April 202314.10.FC5, November 20201.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++RustC, C++ and JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet 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/ODBCGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACIDno
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and KerberosUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlssimple password-based access control

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