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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. CockroachDB vs. Hazelcast vs. LeanXcale vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A widely adopted in-memory data gridA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.cockroachlabs.comhazelcast.comwww.leanxcale.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonCockroach LabsHazelcastLeanXcaleRockset
Initial release20152015200820152019
Current release23.1.1, May 20235.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.yesnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query languageyes infothrough Apache DerbyRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
Triggersyesnoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infoReplicated Mapyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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