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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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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.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

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

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Databricks

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2011

2014

2020

Current release

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

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

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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