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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. RocksDB vs. Solr vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1999

2013

2006

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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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