DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

dgraph.io

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

dgraph.io/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

IBM

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2017

2007

2013

Current release

2.0

14.1, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java 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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication via Raft

Active-active shard replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

optionally

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

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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