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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. MonetDB vs. Solr vs. Sqrrl vs. SwayDB

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.monetdb.orgsolr.apache.orgsqrrl.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesMonetDB BVApache Software FoundationAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20002004200620122018
Current release15.5, September 2020Dec2023 (11.49), December 20239.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetCJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSolr Parallel SQL Interfacenono
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes, in SQL, C, RJava pluginsnono
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoopnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDoptimistic lockingAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entityAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)no

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