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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Cassandra vs. Drizzle vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

cassandra.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

Technical documentation

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2015

2008

2009

1979

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

3.10.0, March 2022

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

ANSI SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC

JCache

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP 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

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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