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System Properties Comparison Sequoiadb vs. Solr vs. ToroDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.sequoiadb.com

solr.apache.org

github.com/torodb/server

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

solr.apache.org/resources.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

8Kdata

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2006

2016

2011

Current release

9.6.0, April 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Based on Windows Authentication

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