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System Properties Comparison Databricks 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 GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

www.databricks.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.databricks.com

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Databricks

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2013

2017

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Python
R
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

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