DBMS > Databricks vs. Neo4j vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Neo4j vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. Trino

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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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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

Score	42.68
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

neo4j.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

neo4j.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/hana

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Databricks

Neo4j, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2007

2009

2010

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

5.23, August 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

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

schema-free and schema-optional

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

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

restricted

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

Erlang

SQLScript, R

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

via event handler

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes using Neo4j Fabric

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

selectable replication factor

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

yes, using Riak Security

yes

SQL standard access control

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