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DBMS > Solr vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Solr vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx vs. SwayDB

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NameSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitesolr.apache.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release2006202020012018
Current release9.6.0, April 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesnono
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava pluginsnonono
Triggersyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesnono

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