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System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. GridGain

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Primary database model

Search engine

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	32.98
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.49
Rank	#149	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#25	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

solr.apache.org

www.gridgain.com

Technical documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Initial release

2006

2007

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

GridGain 8.5.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial, open source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

Role-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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