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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Impala vs. MaxDB vs. ObjectBox

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraimpala.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997ObjectBox Limited
Initial release2015201319842017
Current release4.1.0, June 20227.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary native 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/ODBC.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
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