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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Ingres vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesWell established RDBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Event Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
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Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperDatabricksIBMActian CorporationGoogleSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release201320171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20141994
Current release2.011.2, May 20222.1.12, February 201716.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesyesnoyes
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesActive-active shard replicationIngres ReplicatornoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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