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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Graphite vs. OrigoDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasecloud.google.com/­spannergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-weborigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasecloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GoogleChris DavisRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20132012201720062009 infounder the name LiveDB
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languagePythonC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.yesnononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregateslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonoyes
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID infoStrict serializable isolationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noRole based authorization
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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