DBMS > Databricks vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite vs. OpenSearch

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

The 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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.databricks.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

graphite.readthedocs.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Databricks

FatCloud

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Chris Davis

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2013

2012

2006

2021

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

via applications

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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