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DBMS > OrientDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. Solr

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Spatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websiteorientdb.orgpostgis.netsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation
Initial release2010200520152006
Current release3.2.29, March 20243.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 20229.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCErlangJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsyesyes, limitedSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, Javascriptuser defined functionsErlangJava plugins
TriggersHooksyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoyes

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