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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.geomesa.orggreenplum.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.greenplum.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperDatabricksCCRi and othersPivotal Software Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2013201420052015
Current release5.0.0, May 20247.0.0, September 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageScala
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
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.nodepending on storage layernono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication
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