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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.42
Rank#261  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.kinetica.comnsdb.iopostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperDatabricksKinetica
Initial release2013201220172005
Current release7.1, August 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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