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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LevelDB vs. mSQL vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014GoogleHughes TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152010201119942019
Current release1.23, February 20214.4, October 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++CClojure
Server operating systemshostedhostedIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggerslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono

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