DBMS > Databricks vs. LevelDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. LevelDB vs. QuestDB vs. RocksDB vs. STSdb

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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

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	2.70
Rank	#105	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.databricks.com

github.com/google/leveldb

questdb.io

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

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

questdb.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Databricks

Google

QuestDB Technology Inc

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2011

2014

2013

2011

Current release

1.23, February 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

SQL with time-series extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID for single-table writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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