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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. DuckDB vs. HBase vs. Sequoiadb

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comduckdb.orghbase.apache.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comduckdb.org/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperDatabricksApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2013201820082013
Current release0.10, February 20242.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
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
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJavaScript
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)Document is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access control
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