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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Lovefield vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime vs. YugabyteDB

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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 relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

google.github.io/lovefield

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

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

docs.siridb.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Databricks

Google

Cesbit

Mireo

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2017

2020

2017

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

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

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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