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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Spatial extension of H2A multi-model DBMS and application serverA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument 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
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperDatabricksCCRi and othersCNRSInterSystemsMicrosoft
Initial release20132014201319972012
Current release5.0.0, May 20242018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
JavaC#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infobased on H2yesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2Access rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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