DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Databricks vs. EXASOL vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. EXASOL vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata Aster

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storagePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF storeKey-value storeRelational 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
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.exasol.comrdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperDatabricksExasolSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer PlahaTeradata
Initial release20132000200420182005
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
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.yesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsyesnoR packages
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
DatabricksEXASOLRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSwayDBTeradata Aster
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
DatabricksEXASOLRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSwayDBTeradata Aster
DB-Engines blog posts

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2023
2 January 2024, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Databricks is expanding the scope of its AI investments with second VC fund
21 May 2024, Fortune

Building CI Pipeline with Databricks Asset Bundle and GitLab
25 May 2024, hackernoon.com

XponentL Data Secures Strategic Investment from Databricks Ventures to Fuel Data Transformation & Generative AI
22 May 2024, businesswire.com

AI is Driving Record Sales at Multibillion-Dollar Databricks. An IPO Can Wait … - WSJ
6 March 2024, The Wall Street Journal

Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of May 24; Updates from Databricks, IBM, Microsoft & More
23 May 2024, Solutions Review

provided by Google News

Mathias Golombek, Chief Technology Officer of Exasol – Interview Series
21 May 2024, Unite.AI

Exasol Finds AI Underinvestment Leads to Business Failure, But Data Challenges Stall Rapid Adoption
14 May 2024, insideBIGDATA

It's Back to the Database Future for Exasol CEO Tewes
26 October 2023, Datanami

Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
26 February 2024, TechTarget

Exasol Unveils New Suite of AI Tools to Turbocharge Enterprise Data Analytics
21 February 2024, businesswire.com

provided by Google News

GraphDB Goes Open Source
27 January 2020, iProgrammer

Ontotext's GraphDB 8.10 Makes Knowledge Graph Experience Faster and Richer
13 June 2019, Markets Insider

provided by Google News

Northwestern Analytics Partners with Teradata Aster to Host Hackathon
23 May 2014, Northwestern Engineering

Teradata Aster gets graph database, HDFS-compatible file store
8 October 2013, ZDNet

Teradata Provides the Simplest Way to Bring the Science of Data to the Art of Business
22 September 2011, PR Newswire

Teradata's Aster shows how the flowers of fraud bloom
23 April 2015, The Register

Case study: Siemens reduces train failures with Teradata Aster
12 September 2016, RCR Wireless News

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here