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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroracloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/origodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonGoogleThomas MuellerCirconus LLC.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release20152015200520172009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in Luayes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based authorization

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