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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.In-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and othersOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20152014201420092006
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.2.0, December 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaScriptErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningdepending on storage layernoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationdepending on storage layernoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layernoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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