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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  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.Spatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperDatabricksCNRSMicrosoft
Initial release2013201320102017
Current releaseV12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Java.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infobased on H2Transact SQLno
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DatabricksH2GISMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureNSDb
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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