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System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. MaxDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	32.67
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.95
Rank	#117	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#383	Overall
	#21	Vector DBMS

Website

solr.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2006

1984

2023

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

Vector, Numeric and String

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Immediate 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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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