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System Properties Comparison Oracle Rdb vs. Solr vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB

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NameOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LucenePort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsolr.apache.orgsql.js.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Apache Software FoundationAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer Plaha
Initial release1984200620122018
Current release7.4.1.1, 20219.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptScala
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava pluginsnono
Triggersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeoptimistic lockingACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono

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