DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. RavenDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

ravendb.net/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Hibernating Rhinos

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

1995

2010

2015

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

5.4, July 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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