DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. EXASOL vs. Hazelcast vs. SQLite vs. TDengine

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.50
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	6.87
Rank	#55	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#109	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.exasol.com

hazelcast.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Amazon

Exasol

Hazelcast

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2015

2000

2008

2000

2019

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

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
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Role-based access control

yes

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