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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Linter vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime

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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.

RDBMS for high security requirements

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	84.24
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

linter.ru

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Databricks

relex.ru

Google

Mireo

Initial release

2013

1990

2014

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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