DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. EXASOL vs. Google BigQuery vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.exasol.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Exasol

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2015

2000

2010

2004

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

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
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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