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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. OrientDB vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

orientdb.org

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2015

2010

2013

2015

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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