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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. HBase vs. Kinetica vs. Solr

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitebigobject.iohbase.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.kinetica.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetKineticaApache Software Foundation
Initial release2015200820122006
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1, August 20219.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functionsJava plugins
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes

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