DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Ehcache vs. EXASOL vs. RethinkDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Ehcache vs. EXASOL vs. RethinkDB vs. YottaDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.84
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

rethinkdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Exasol

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2015

2009

2000

2009

2001

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

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

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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

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

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
4 August 2014, Paul Andlinger

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

Review your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS security configuration with Prowler’s new checks
6 August 2024, AWS Blog

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

provided by Google News

Jira Data Center user? Here's a critical Ehcache vulnerability to spoil your day
22 July 2021, The Register

Atlassian asks customers to patch critical Jira vulnerability
22 July 2021, BleepingComputer

Critical Jira Flaw in Atlassian Could Lead to RCE
22 July 2021, Threatpost

How to partition Sonatype Nexus Repository: Targets, privileges, and roles
9 February 2010, Sonatype Blog

Implementing fallback with cached data
8 October 2018, O'Reilly Media

provided by Google News

Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
26 February 2024, TechTarget

Exasol Finds AI Underinvestment Leads to Business Failure, But Data Challenges Stall Rapid Adoption
14 May 2024, insideBIGDATA

Mathias Golombek, Chief Technology Officer of Exasol – Interview Series
21 May 2024, Unite.AI

WashTec: Data Analytics for optimizing car wash systems.
27 May 2024, All-About-Industries

It’s Back to the Database Future for Exasol CEO Tewes
26 October 2023, Datanami

provided by Google News

An introduction to building realtime apps with RethinkDB
9 July 2022, devm.io

Stripe acquires team behind NoSQL database startup RethinkDB
5 October 2016, VentureBeat

How to Use RethinkDB with Node.js Applications
16 December 2015, SitePoint

How to deploy RethinkDB using Docker
14 February 2018, Packt Hub

Installing and Using RethinkDB on Ubuntu
8 April 2022, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Share this page