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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. Solr

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.81
Rank	#255	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#87	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	49.56
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

www.sap.com/products/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

lucene.apache.org/solr

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

help.sap.com/iq

lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

SAP, formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

1994

2006

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

9.2.1, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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