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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperDatabricksDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20132008201420102013
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control
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