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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Graphite vs. Rockset vs. Vertica

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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 WhisperA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroragithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrockset.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rockset.comvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisRocksetOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2015200620192005
Current release12.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlydynamic typingyes
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.yesnono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesnonoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyesMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Amazon AuroraGraphiteRocksetVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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