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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A widely adopted in-memory data gridNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroracloud.google.com/­spannerhazelcast.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdoc.nuodb.comorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonGoogleHazelcastDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release20152017200820132009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release5.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser 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.yesnoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoEventsyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infoReplicated Mapyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
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.yesnoyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
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)Role-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersRole based authorization

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