DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.84
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

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

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.ehcache.org

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

www.ehcache.org/documentation

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2009

1989

2011

1998

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

JCache

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

.NET Client API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

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

C#
Java

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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