DBMS > Databricks vs. Dgraph vs. HyperSQL vs. jBASE vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Dgraph vs. HyperSQL vs. jBASE vs. SQLite

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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.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

dgraph.io

hsqldb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

dgraph.io/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Databricks

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2016

2001

1991

2000

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

5.7

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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