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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comdgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdgraph.io/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2help.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDatabricksDgraph Labs, Inc.IBMSAP, formerly SybaseTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release201320161983 infohost version19941987
Current release12.1, October 201616.1 SPS04, April 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyesyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via Raftyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)SAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DatabricksDgraphIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2SAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTransbase
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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