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NameDatabricks
DescriptionThe 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.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score128.80
Rank#8  Overall
#2  Document stores
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.com
DeveloperDatabricks
Initial release2013
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyes
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Server operating systemshosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQL
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregates
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no

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