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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. RDF4J vs. TinkerGraph

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score76.33
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comopentsdb.netquestdb.iordf4j.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperDatabrickscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQuestDB Technology IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20132011201420042009
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as welloptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono
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DatabricksOpenTSDBQuestDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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