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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BigObject vs. Elasticsearch vs. Kinetica

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.66
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score131.64
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#257  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorabigobject.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.bigobject.iowww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.ElasticKinetica
Initial release2015201520102012
Current release8.6, January 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesLuayesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesMemcached and Redis integrationyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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