DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Widely used open source RDBMS

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.postgres-xl.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

1995

2008

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

10 R1, October 2018

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

MVCC

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 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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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