DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Phoenix vs. EXASOL vs. HarperDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#126	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

Technical documentation

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

phoenix.apache.org

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

HarperDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2000

2017

2014

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

dynamic schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

CLI Client
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

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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