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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  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.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from Clickhouse
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score102.66
Rank#12  Overall
#2  Document stores
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#206  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.firebolt.io
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.firebolt.io
DeveloperDatabricksFirebolt Analytics Inc.
Initial release20132020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyes
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Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layer
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no

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