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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. ITTIA

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#273	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

www.ittia.com

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

ITTIA L.L.C.

Initial release

2015

2016

2007

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

8.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

key based and custom

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Database file passwords

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