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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. PostGIS vs. VelocityDB

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score76.33
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#11  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.compostgis.netvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.compostgis.net/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperDatabricksVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201320052011
Current release3.4.2, February 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageCC#
Server operating systemshostedAny that supports .NET
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 integrityyesno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLBased on Windows Authentication
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DatabricksPostGISVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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