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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTenBase vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Databricks

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2010

2011

2018

Current release

2.5, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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 document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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