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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.monetdb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonMonetDB BVOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20152004201420052009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, Rnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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