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System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. openGauss vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Solr vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

solr.apache.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

solr.apache.org/resources.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP

formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

SenX

Initial release

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2019

1992

2006

2015

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

3.0, March 2022

17, July 2015

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

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

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.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

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Java plugins

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

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