DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Dragonfly vs. DuckDB vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Dragonfly vs. DuckDB vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

duckdb.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

duckdb.org/docs

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2023

2018

2013

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
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#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Password-based authentication

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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