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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
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	#35	Document stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2013

2019

2006

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
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

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and 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

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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