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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Fauna vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#151  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comfauna.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.fauna.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperDatabricksFauna, Inc.SAP, formerly SybaseAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2013201419942008
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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DatabricksFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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