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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Amazon

Google

Hazelcast

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2015

2010

2008

2010

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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