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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Derby vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Access vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comdb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperDatabricksApache Software FoundationSpotifyMicrosoftAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20131997201419922008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsserver-less
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored Proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
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DatabricksDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBHeroicMicrosoft AccessSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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