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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. KeyDB vs. RDFox vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.keydb.dev

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2019

2017

2013

Current release

6.0, Septermber 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Java API

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 and ACL

Roles, resources, and access types

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