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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Datomic vs. H2 vs. KairosDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.datomic.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.datomic.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperDatabricksCognitectThomas Mueller
Initial release2013201220052013
Current release1.0.7075, December 20232.2.220, July 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Clojure
Java
JavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control
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