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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. GeoSpock vs. HBase vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 AmazonSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value 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
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorageospock.comhbase.apache.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release2015200820142011
Current release2.0, September 20192.3.4, January 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScalaC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
.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
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningAutomatic shardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnono

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