DBMS > FeatureBase vs. Solr vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. Solr vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.featurebase.com

solr.apache.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.sqlite.org

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Timescale

Initial release

2017

2006

2008

2000

2017

Current release

2022, May 2022

9.6.0, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

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

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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