DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Newts vs. Solr vs. Sqrrl vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Newts vs. Solr vs. Sqrrl vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

opennms.github.io/newts

solr.apache.org

sqrrl.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2006

2012

2023

Current release

9.6.0, April 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

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

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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