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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. SiriDB vs. Solr vs. StarRocks vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

siridb.com

solr.apache.org

www.starrocks.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.siridb.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Google

Cesbit

Apache Software Foundation

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2017

2006

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

9.6.1, May 2024

2.5.3, March 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++, Java

C++

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)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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