DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. InfluxDB vs. MarkLogic vs. MySQL vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. InfluxDB vs. MarkLogic vs. MySQL vs. Trino

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Widely used open source RDBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.marklogic.com

www.mysql.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.marklogic.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

MarkLogic Corp.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2013

2001

1995

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

11.0, December 2022

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

SQL standard access control

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