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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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 durabilityScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.datomic.comnsdb.iorethinkdb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.datomic.comnsdb.io/­Architecturerethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCognitectThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alex Kashirin
Initial release20152012201720092020
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.4.1, August 20200.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, ScalaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
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
Java
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)Using Apache Luceneyesyes
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 developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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