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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	12.46
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	29.55
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.66
Rank	#36	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.09
Rank	#99	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	3.68
Rank	#91	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2015

2013

2016

2009

1993

Current release

2.0.8, August 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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#
Java
PHP

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

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

Depending on used storage engine

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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