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System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	32.47
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	15.35
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

solr.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2006

2016

1994

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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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)

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

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