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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Drizzle vs. Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SingleStore

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	12.46
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	6.47
Rank	#66	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.47
Rank	#95	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	7.04
Rank	#61	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2015

2008

2009

2010

2013

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

3.9.6, September 2021

7.6, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

JCache

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
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++
Java
PHP

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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