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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Databricks vs. HBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
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Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.databricks.com

hbase.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Databricks

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

2007

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

14.1, August 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

with Databricks SQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

configurable

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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