DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BigchainDB vs. Heroic vs. SAP HANA vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.bigchaindb.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

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

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/hana

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

SAP

Tencent

Initial release

2015

2016

2014

2010

2013

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

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

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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