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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. HyperSQL vs. LokiJS vs. SWC-DB

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.databricks.com

hsqldb.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Databricks

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2001

2014

2020

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Java, SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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