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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. MySQL vs. Tarantool vs. TerarkDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Widely used open source RDBMS

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

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

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.mysql.com

www.tarantool.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ByteDance, originally Terark

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

1995

2008

2016

2018

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

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

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Open binary protocol

C++ API
Java 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#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

C++
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

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, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Role-based access control

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