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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. GeoSpock vs. mSQL

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be 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.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scalemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orggeospock.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manuals
DeveloperDatabricksEsgynFirebird FoundationGeoSpockHughes Technologies
Initial release201320152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1994
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.0, September 20194.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++Java, JavascriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored ProceduresPSQLnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno
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