DBMS > Databricks vs. Greenplum vs. LeanXcale vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Greenplum vs. LeanXcale vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

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.

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

greenplum.org

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

docs.greenplum.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Databricks

Pivotal Software Inc.

LeanXcale

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2013

2005

2015

2020

1987

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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

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

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

C
Java
Scala

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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