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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonKineticaquasardb
Initial release2015201220142009
Current release7.1, August 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyeswith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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