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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. ObjectBox vs. Snowflake

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperDatabricksObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201320172014
Current release4.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyes
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Implementation languageC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
hosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functions
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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