DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

impala.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Embarcadero

SAP

Initial release

2015

2013

1984

2005

2010

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

InterBase 2020, December 2019

3.4.2, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Interbase Change Views

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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