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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Graphite vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWidely used in-process key-value storeSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroragithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release2015200619942005
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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 infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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