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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Drizzle vs. Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  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.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Spatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroragreenplum.orgwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerPivotal Software Inc.CNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release20152008200520132016
Current release7.2.4, September 20127.0.0, September 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
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
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesyes infobased on H2no
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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