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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. EventStoreDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  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.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Event StoreTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.eventstore.comwww.hawkular.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperDatabricksEvent Store LimitedCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoft
Initial release2013201220142016
Current release21.2, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoTransact SQL
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes
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DatabricksEventStoreDBHawkular MetricsMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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