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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Coveo vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

druid.apache.org

www.coveo.com

pouchdb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.coveo.com

pouchdb.com/guides

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Coveo

Apache Software Foundation

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2015

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

yes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

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

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