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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Solr vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

solr.apache.org

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

solr.apache.org/resources.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1994

2021

2006

2011

Current release

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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