DBMS > Blueflood vs. chDB vs. Databricks vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. chDB vs. Databricks vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	84.24
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.databricks.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

doc.chdb.io

docs.databricks.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Rackspace

Databricks

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2023

2013

1989

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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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