DBMS > mSQL vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OushuDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.oushu.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Oushu

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1994

2009

2010

2006

Current release

4.4, October 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.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

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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