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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. EDB Postgres vs. Splunk vs. SWC-DB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  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.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Analytics Platform for Big DataA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score102.66
Rank#12  Overall
#2  Document stores
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.62
Rank#137  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score71.39
Rank#18  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.enterprisedb.comwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperDatabricksEnterpriseDBSplunk Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2013200520032020
Current release14, December 20210.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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