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DBMS > Databricks vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Drizzle vs. FatDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#309  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.timescale.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.timescale.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperDatabricksDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerFatCloudTimescaleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20132008201220172001
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C#CC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesno
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infovia applicationsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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