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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Drizzle vs. GeoSpock vs. HarperDB vs. RRDtool

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorageospock.comwww.harperdb.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGeoSpockHarperDBTobias Oetiker
Initial release2015200820171999
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.0, September 20193.1, August 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptNode.jsC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoJSON data typesNumeric data only
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.yesnonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like data manipulation statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesAda
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1no
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingAutomatic shardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusternone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definednone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of specific operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and rolesno

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