DBMS > GeoSpock vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. Solr

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Name

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

Description

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

geospock.com

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

GeoSpock

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2021

2009

2006

Current release

2.0, September 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

temporal, categorical

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.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

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with 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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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