DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. FatDB vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. FatDB vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.mysql.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

FatCloud

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2012

1995

2012

2018

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

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