DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Databricks vs. RRDtool vs. SpatiaLite vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

Spatial extension of SQLite

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.databricks.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.databricks.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Databricks

Tobias Oetiker

Alessandro Furieri

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2013

1999

2008

2009

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

HP-UX
Linux

server-less

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Python
R
Scala

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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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Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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