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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Greenplum vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  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.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score90.03
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score7.54
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score6.83
Rank#49  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score72.76
Rank#17  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comgreenplum.orgwww.h2database.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperDatabricksPivotal Software Inc.Thomas MuellerMicrosoft
Initial release2013200520052010
Current release7.0.0, September 20232.2.220, July 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yesyes infosince Version 4.2noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DatabricksGreenplumH2Microsoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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