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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwaremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#19  Object oriented DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.compostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.heavy.aiorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDatabricksHEAVY.AI, Inc.Hughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2013201619942009 infounder the name LiveDB2005
Current release5.10, January 20224.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDACC#C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyes
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.yesnonono infocan be achieved using .NETyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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DatabricksHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022mSQL infoMini SQLOrigoDBPostGIS
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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