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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB vs. VoltDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.compostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.compostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperDatabricksSequoiadb Ltd.TimescaleVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20132005201320172010
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++CJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data 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.yesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellJava
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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