DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. BoltDB vs. EJDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Softmotions

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2012

2007

2013

Current release

14.1, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

configurable

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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