DBMS > Cassandra vs. DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Solr

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

cassandra.apache.org

duckdb.org

geospock.com

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

duckdb.org/docs

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

GeoSpock

Percona

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2018

2008

2006

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

0.10, February 2024

2.0, September 2019

8.0.36-28, 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 object

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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