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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. HBase vs. PouchDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.databricks.comhbase.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDatabricksApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20132008201220132019
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1.1, June 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnonoSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScriptJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnosimple password-based access control
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DatabricksHBasePouchDBSequoiadbXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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