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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Dolt vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score76.33
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.95
Rank#197  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websitewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
rethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.dolthub.comrethinkdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksDoltHub IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132018200920182019
Current release2.4.1, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC++ScalaClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infocurrently in alpha releasenono
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Source-replica replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupyes infousers and table-level permissionsno
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