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System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB vs. Vertica

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NameQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitequasar.aisolr.apache.orgterminusdb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#vertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperquasardbApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.OpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2009200620182005
Current release3.14.1, January 20249.6.0, April 202411.0.0, January 202312.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC++JavaProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infointeger and binaryyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyes
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 indexesyes infowith tagsyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (WOQL)Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava pluginsyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryesJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodswith Hadoop integrationspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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QuasardbSolrTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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