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System Properties Comparison Spark SQL vs. Trafodion

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Name

Description

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.43
Rank	#252	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

spark.apache.org/sql

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

trafodion.apache.org

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

Current release

3.2.0, October 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python
R
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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