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DBMS > BigObject vs. Coveo vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Coveo vs. EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedSearch engineEvent StoreRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.coveo.comwww.eventstore.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.coveo.comdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.CoveoEvent Store LimitedMicrosoft
Initial release2015201220122010
Current release21.2, February 2021V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyeshybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoTransact SQL
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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