DBMS > Databricks vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Graph Engine vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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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.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#240	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#35	Key-value stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.databricks.com

www.graphengine.io

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Databricks

Microsoft

Chris Davis

Microsoft

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

2010

2006

2014

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

.NET

Linux
Unix

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

yes

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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 rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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