DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Axibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Axibase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

2013

2018

2014

2016

Current release

15585

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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 query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

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