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System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Solr vs. SpaceTime vs. Ultipa

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

solr.apache.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Mireo

Ultipa

Initial release

2014

2006

2020

2019

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

yes

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