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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	7.84
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2010

2015

2018

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

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

Role-based access control

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