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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. Ingres

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsWell established RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.50
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorageode.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingres
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperAmazonOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Community supported by Red HatActian Corporation
Initial release20152002201420131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release1.1, February 20172.7.5, January 202411.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC
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.yesyesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablenosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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