DBMS > Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP HANA vs. WakandaDB

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Name

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.

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

help.sap.com/hana

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Databricks

Google

acquired by Google 2014

IBM

SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2012

1983

host version

2010

2012

Current release

12.1, October 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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