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System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. Dolt vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

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Score	32.79
Rank	#23	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.60
Rank	#232	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

solr.apache.org

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.dolthub.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DoltHub Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2006

2018

2019

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes, each node contains all data

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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