DBMS > Databricks vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sphinx

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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.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.databricks.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Databricks

Microsoft

Oracle

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2014

2011

2001

Current release

23.3, December 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

optional

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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