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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. LokiJS vs. Stardog

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score76.33
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.05
Rank#129  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperDatabricksEsgynFirebird FoundationStardog-Union
Initial release201320152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20142010
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Sourcecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
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.yesnonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesyesnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored ProceduresPSQLView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyesyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and roles
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