DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Firebolt vs. Galaxybase vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Firebolt vs. Galaxybase vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.firebolt.io

galaxybase.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.firebolt.io

kairosdb.github.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2020

2017

2013

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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