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DBMS > Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. Quasardb vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/quasar.aisiridb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.siridb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperDatabricksCirconus LLC.quasardbCesbitApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20132017200920172014
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infointeger and binaryyes infoNumeric datayes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes, in LuanonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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