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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. HBase vs. LevelDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sequoiadb

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used in-process key-value store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

hbase.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Databricks

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Google

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2008

2011

1994

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.23, February 2021

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple password-based access control

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