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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. MaxDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. MaxDB vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS vs. Sqrrl

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroramaxdb.sap.comsphinxsearch.comsql.js.orgsqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Sphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20151984200120122012
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Proprietary protocolJavaScript APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
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#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScriptActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnonenoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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