DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. ReductStore vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTenBase vs. ReductStore vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

kairosdb.github.io

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.reduct.store/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

ReductStore LLC

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2023

2014

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

2.5, January 2024

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
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

HTTP API

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

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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