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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe 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 developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score84.24
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Document stores
#9  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aisql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperDatabricksMicrosoftquasardbAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2013201520092012
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
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