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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems Caché

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BaseX vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InterSystems Caché

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
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
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorabasex.orgwww.exasol.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cache
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.basex.orgwww.exasol.com/­resourcesfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHExasolGoogleInterSystems
Initial release20152007200020171997
Current release11.0, June 20242018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freedepending on used data model
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
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
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesuser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyes
Triggersyesyes infovia eventsyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationUsing Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights for users, groups and roles

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