DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Couchbase vs. H2 vs. InfluxDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. Couchbase vs. H2 vs. InfluxDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	8.50
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.85
Rank	#86	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	18.46
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	26.56
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.couchbase.com

www.h2database.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

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

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

docs.couchbase.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

Couchbase, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2015

2000

2011

2005

2013

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

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

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Automatic Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

TDB Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access control via Jena Security

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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