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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. EXASOL vs. FatDB vs. MaxDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAnalytic DBMS for HadoopHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraimpala.apache.orgwww.exasol.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaExasolFatCloudSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20152013200020121984
Current release4.1.0, June 20227.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxWindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
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/ODBCJava
Lua
Python
R
C#.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functionsyes infovia applicationsyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes infoHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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 KerberosAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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