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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Heroic vs. Splice Machine vs. TerarkDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comspotify.github.io/­heroicsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperDatabricksSpotifySplice MachineByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201420142016
Current release3.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnoyes infoJavano
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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