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System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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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 high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Databricks

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2013

2021

2014

2017

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Collection-level replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Key-based authentication

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

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