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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Databricks vs. Faircom DB vs. PostgreSQL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.databricks.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.postgresql.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.databricks.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Databricks

FairCom Corporation

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2013

1979

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2011

Current release

V12, November 2020

16.3, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

with Databricks SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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 with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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