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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hazelcast

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  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.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA widely adopted in-memory data grid
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score102.66
Rank#12  Overall
#2  Document stores
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#169  Overall
#27  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.58
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.gigaspaces.comhazelcast.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksGigaspaces TechnologiesHazelcast
Initial release201320002008
Current release15.5, September 20205.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yesno infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Services
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infoEvents
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoReplicated Map
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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