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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hyprcubd vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsServerless Time Series DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.gigaspaces.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDatabricksGigaspaces TechnologiesHyprcubd, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2013200020132005
Current release15.5, September 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetGoC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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 metadatanonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (https)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesnoJava, SQLuser defined functions
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoMVCCyes
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.noyesnoyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controltoken accessStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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