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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. IRONdb vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazonCirconus LLC.RocksetAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2015201720192008
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsdynamic 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 indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in Luanono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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