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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. LevelDB vs. MariaDB vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

The 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.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.databricks.com

github.com/google/leveldb

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

quasar.ai

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Databricks

Google

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

quasardb

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2011

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

2015

Current release

1.23, February 2021

11.3.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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