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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Firebolt vs. Memcached

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	8.18
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	17.79
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.firebolt.io

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.firebolt.io

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2015

2020

2003

Current release

1.6.29, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Proprietary protocol

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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