DBMS > Lovefield vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
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Score	3.41
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Score	0.07
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	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Google

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2009

2013

2017

2006

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

yes

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Erlang

Java plugins

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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