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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Spark (SQL) vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Apache Spark (SQL) vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonApache Spark (SQL)  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonApache Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processinga GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.48
Rank#45  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score17.39
Rank#32  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroraspark.apache.org/­sqlsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationSQream Technologies
Initial release201520142017
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark Corehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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