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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. RocksDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.exasol.com

rocksdb.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Exasol

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2000

2013

2006

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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