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

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 SQLite
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.kinetica.comnsdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperDatabricksKineticaAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2013201220172008
Current release7.1, August 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
server-less
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.yesnonono
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 functionsnono
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone
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 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 RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno
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