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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LeanXcale vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.leanxcale.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

LeanXcale

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2010

2015

2006

Current release

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through Apache Derby

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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