DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Ehcache vs. GeoSpock vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

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

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.ehcache.org

geospock.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

GeoSpock

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2009

1989

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0, September 2019

0.9.8.11, March 2016

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

temporal, categorical

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache

JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Automatic sharding

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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 can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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