DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Axibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Axibase vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Google

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2013

2010

2013

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

15585

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

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
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

SQL standard access control

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