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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	8.50
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

IBM

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2001

2014

2000

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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