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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  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 AmazonFull-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 simplicityIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonThomas MuellerCirconus LLC.Robert Friberg et al
Initial release20152005201720142009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScriptC#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoUser 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 indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJavaScript 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
Java.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole based authorization

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