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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. InfinityDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraphoenix.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.gigaspaces.comboilerbay.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlphoenix.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerGigaspaces TechnologiesBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20152014200520002002
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.3.3, December 202315.5, September 20204.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersyesnoyesyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationyesyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlno

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