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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	12.46
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#281	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#350	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

riak.com/products/riak-ts

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Amazon

Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2020

Current release

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon Aurora Serverless gets more granular and affordable
21 April 2022, VentureBeat

AWS Releases the Second Version of Amazon Aurora Serverless with Independent Scaling
29 April 2022, InfoQ.com

RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL Vulnerability Leads to AWS Deprecating Many Minor Versions
23 April 2022, InfoQ.com

Google Cloud Takes Aim at Amazon With a New Database for Oracle Users
11 May 2022, Business Insider

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9 May 2022, Investopedia

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Riak TS for time series analysis at scale
29 September 2016, Opensource.com

Basho open-sources its Riak TS database for the Internet Of Things
5 May 2016, TechCrunch

Is Riak A Good NoSQL Database Option?
1 July 2019, Analytics India Magazine

Handling unstructured IoT data in the enterprise
7 October 2015, ITProPortal

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