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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. EDB Postgres vs. Ehcache vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.enterprisedb.com

www.ehcache.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

EnterpriseDB

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2005

2009

2000

Current release

14, December 2021

3.10.0, March 2022

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JCache

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

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