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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

solr.apache.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

1989

1994

2006

2018

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

18.1.40, May 2020

9.6.0, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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