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DBMS > Databricks vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Graphite vs. KairosDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comgraphite.readthedocs.iokairosdb.github.iolearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperDatabricksChris DavisMicrosoft
Initial release2013200620132015
Current release1.2.2, November 2018V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languagePythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infousing Azure authentication
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