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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. EJDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score76.33
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDatabricksSoftmotionsApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2013201220141987
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCScalaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DatabricksEJDBSpark SQLTransbase
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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