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System Properties Comparison Snowflake vs. Solr vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A widely used enterprise search engine based on Apache Lucene

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	2.56
Rank	#101	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	57.78
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.49
Rank	#209	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#36	Key-value stores
	#10	Wide column stores

Website

www.snowflake.com

lucene.apache.org/solr

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2004

2012

Current release

8.3.0, November 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM and a servlet container info

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes

XML support info

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

supports limited query time joins

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Actionscript
C info

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

cloud/distributed (via Zookeeper)
Master-slave replication

selectable replication factor info

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency info

slaves poll the master in predefined intervalls

Immediate Consistency info

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

optimistic locking info

Solr 4

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

User concepts info

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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