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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. KairosDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

hazelcast.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Hazelcast

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2013

2010

2006

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
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

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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