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System Properties Comparison SAP HANA vs. Solr vs. Typesense vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

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

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

typesense.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

typesense.org/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2010

2006

2015

2012

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

yes

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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