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DBMS > Apache Solr vs. Elasticsearch vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. Elasticsearch vs. Typesense

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NameApache Solr  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score32.40
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score128.08
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#207  Overall
#15  Search engines
Websitesolr.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchtypesense.org
Technical documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationElastic
Initial release200620102015
Current release9.6.1, May 20248.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)All OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava pluginsyesno
Triggersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes

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