DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. DolphinDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.dolphindb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

postgis.net

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

postgis.net/documentation

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2015

2018

1989

2005

2022

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.4.2, February 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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