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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAmazonHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM
Initial release2015201620162017
Current release5.10, January 20222.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
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
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
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-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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