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System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	32.67
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#358	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#20	Vector DBMS

Score	3.39
Rank	#77	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

solr.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2006

2015

2009

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

3.3 July 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

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

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

Erlang

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

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

rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

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