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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. GreptimeDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BaseX vs. EDB Postgres vs. GreptimeDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score1.91
Rank#130  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorabasex.orgwww.enterprisedb.comgreptime.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.basex.orgwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.greptime.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHEnterpriseDBGreptime Inc.
Initial release20152007200520222014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release11.0, June 202414, December 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCRustC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Pythonuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon AuroraBaseXEDB PostgresGreptimeDBPostgres-XL
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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