DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Blueflood vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Blueflood vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

blueflood.io

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2015

2013

2014

2022

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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