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TileDB vs Databricks: What are the differences?
What is TileDB? The serverless universal data engine for any data, any tool. TileDB offers a data engine that makes data management and compute fast, easy and universal. Manage, store, share and analyze any kind of data (not just tables) with any computational tool (not just SQL) at extreme scale.
What is Databricks? A unified analytics platform, powered by Apache Spark. Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, from the original creators of Apache Spark™, unifies data science and engineering across the Machine Learning lifecycle from data preparation to experimentation and deployment of ML applications.
TileDB belongs to "Databases" category of the tech stack, while Databricks can be primarily classified under "General Analytics".
Some of the features offered by TileDB are:
- An open-source, open-spec cloud-native storage engine and universal format based on multi-dimensional arrays
- Support for multiple backends
- Data versioning and updates built-in
On the other hand, Databricks provides the following key features:
- Built on Apache Spark and optimized for performance
- Reliable and Performant Data Lakes
- Interactive Data Science and Collaboration
Pros of Databricks
- Best Performances on large datasets1
- True lakehouse architecture1
- Scalability1
- Databricks doesn't get access to your data1
- Usage Based Billing1
- Security1
- Data stays in your cloud account1
- Multicloud1