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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB vs. Solr vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
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Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Google

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Apache Software Foundation

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2014

2013

2017

2006

2018

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

schema-free

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

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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

optimistic locking

Atomic execution of operations

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

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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