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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. GeoMesa vs. Kinetica vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.geomesa.orgwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and othersKineticaSTS Soft SC
Initial release2015201420122011
Current release5.0.0, May 20247.1, August 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaC, C++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client 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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningdepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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.yesdepending on storage layeryes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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