DBMS > Databricks vs. Google BigQuery vs. LeanXcale vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Google BigQuery vs. LeanXcale vs. Riak TS vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

The 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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Databricks

Google

LeanXcale

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2010

2015

2016

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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