DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. Databricks vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. H2

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Databricks vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite vs. H2

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.databricks.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.databricks.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Arcade Data

Databricks

Google

Chris Davis

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2021

2013

2010

2006

2005

Current release

September 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Python
R
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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