DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MySQL vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MySQL vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Widely used open source RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.84
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.mysql.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

dev.mysql.com/doc

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SiteWhere

Initial release

2015

2005

2010

1995

2010

Current release

V12

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

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
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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