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System Properties Comparison Apache Solr vs. SurrealDB

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NameApache Solr  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score32.79
Rank#23  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websitesolr.apache.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20062022
Current release9.6.1, May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava plugins
Triggersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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