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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score63.94
Rank#18  Overall
#3  Document stores
#12  Relational DBMS
Score4.29
Rank#93  Overall
#17  Document stores
Websitedatabricks.comwww.ibm.com/­cloud/­cloudant
Technical documentationdatabricks.com/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperDatabricksIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20132010
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyes
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Implementation languageErlang
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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