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DBMS > Databricks vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Google BigQuery vs. Sequoiadb

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score99.29
Rank#12  Overall
#2  Document stores
#8  Relational DBMS
Score60.73
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#273  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comcloud.google.com/­bigquerywww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comcloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperDatabricksGoogleSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release201320102013
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functions infoin JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying dataDocument is locked during a transaction
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access control

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