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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Pinot vs. Axibase vs. Cassandra vs. InfluxDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

pinot.apache.org

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cassandra.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

Technical documentation

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

docs.pinot.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Initial release

2015

2013

2008

2013

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

15585

4.1.3, July 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

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

Go
Java
Python

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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