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DBMS > Databricks vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Trino vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Trino vs. VelocityDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed 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 multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgtrino.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperDatabricksInterSystemsTrino Software FoundationVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201319972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2011
Current release2018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)depending on used data modelyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
.Net
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyesuser defined functionsyes, depending on connected data-sourceno
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningdepending on connected data-sourceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationdepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-sourceImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCdepending on connected data-sourceACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access controlBased on Windows Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
DatabricksInterSystems CachéPostgres-XLTrinoVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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