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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Datomic vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Datomic vs. Geode vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. RDFox

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.datomic.comgeode.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.datomic.comgeode.apache.org/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAmazonCognitectOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GoogleOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20152012200220172017
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231.1, February 20176.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsyes infoCache Event Listenersyes, with Cloud Functions
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoUsing Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Roles, resources, and access types

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