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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Databricks vs. HBase vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Rank	#396	Overall
	#64	Key-value stores

Score	76.33
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Databricks

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2013

2008

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

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

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Document is locked during a transaction

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

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

simple password-based access control

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