DB-EnginesextremeDB - Data management wherever you need itEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. EDB Postgres vs. Netezza vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. EDB Postgres vs. Netezza vs. SpatiaLite

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonThe 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.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.84
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.enterprisedb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonEnterpriseDBIBMAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2015200520002008
Current release14, December 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesAda
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
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Amazon AuroraEDB PostgresNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMSpatiaLite
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Learn how Presence migrated off a monolithic Amazon RDS for MySQL instance, with near-zero downtime, using replication filters
17 September 2024, AWS Blog

Replace Amazon QLDB with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for audit use cases
18 July 2024, AWS Blog

Build generative AI applications with Amazon Aurora and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
2 February 2024, AWS Blog

Continuously replicate Amazon DynamoDB changes to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS Lambda
14 May 2024, AWS Blog

Amazon Aurora MySQL version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) to version 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) upgrade checklist, Part 1
18 March 2024, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

EDB unveils EDB Postgres AI
23 May 2024, InfoWorld

EDB’s Next Move: From a Postgres Database Company to a Postgres Data & AI Platform Company
20 June 2024, TechCrunch

Enterprise DB begins rolling AI features into PostgreSQL
23 May 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Nutanix and EDB Partner to Deliver a Modern Data Platform
21 May 2024, businesswire.com

EDB Is Developing Its Flagship Database Into A Comprehensive Platform For Analytics, AI
27 February 2024, CRN

provided by Google News

Unify and share data across Netezza and watsonx.data for new generative AI applications
21 June 2024, IBM

How to migrate a large data warehouse from IBM Netezza to Amazon Redshift with no downtime
21 August 2019, AWS Blog

AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off
1 August 2023, The Register

Copy data from Netezza to Azure with Azure Data Factory
9 September 2019, azure.microsoft.com

IBM Completes Acquisition of Netezza
11 November 2010, PR Newswire

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here