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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. RethinkDB vs. XTDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.databricks.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserethinkdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMicrosoftThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20132008201020092019
Current release7.2.4, September 2012V122.4.1, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes, 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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoTransact SQLno
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesClient-side triggers through changefeedsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions
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DatabricksDrizzleMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureRethinkDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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