DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Sequoiadb Ltd.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2015

2013

1995

2013

2017

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

.Net
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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple password-based access control

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