DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. NuoDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

bangdb.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

doc.nuodb.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2008

2013

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

7.2.4, September 2012

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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