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System Properties Comparison searchxml vs. Solr vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.searchxml.net/category/products

solr.apache.org

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

solr.apache.org/resources.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

informationpartners gmbh

Apache Software Foundation

Splice Machine

Initial release

2015

2006

2014

Current release

1.0

9.6.0, April 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Java plugins

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Multi-source replication
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

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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