DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

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Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2003

1987

2014

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

1.6.27, May 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

simple password-based access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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