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System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. JaguarDB vs. Vitess

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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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
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	0.93
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

solr.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2006

2015

2013

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

3.3 July 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

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

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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