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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. TerarkDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDatabricksGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release201320122016
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregateslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesno
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DatabricksFirebase Realtime DatabaseTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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