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DBMS > Databricks vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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.
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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperDatabricksDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCCRi and othersCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20132008201420142008
Current release7.2.4, September 20125.0.0, May 20242.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnononoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
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.nodepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC
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