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DBMS > Databricks vs. Dragonfly vs. DuckDB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Dragonfly vs. DuckDB vs. NSDb

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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 drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score5.61
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
duckdb.orgnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsduckdb.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperDatabricksDragonflyDB team and community contributors
Initial release2013202320182017
Current release1.0, March 20231.0.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-lessLinux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)scheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesLuanono
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationno
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