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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. CouchDB vs. Graph Engine vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

couchdb.apache.org

www.graphengine.io

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Initial release

2015

2005

2010

2012

2010

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

.NET and C

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

.NET

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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 views

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript 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

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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 database

yes

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