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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Kingbase vs. SiteWhere vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.kingbase.com.cngithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SiteWhereJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2015199920102019
Current releaseV8.0, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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