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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.gbase.cngeospock.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAmazonGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release201520042008
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
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#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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