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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. EventStoreDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent StoreEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score9.79
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.21
Rank#363  Overall
#3  Event Stores
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.eventstore.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldevelopers.eventstore.comwww.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­en/­SSGNPV_2.0.0/­welcome.html
DeveloperAmazonEvent Store LimitedIBM
Initial release201520122017
Current release21.2, February 20212.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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