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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Coveo vs. GeoMesa vs. HEAVY.AI

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.coveo.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.coveo.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperCockroach LabsCoveoCCRi and othersHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release2015201220142016
Current release24.1.0, May 20245.0.0, May 20245.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoScalaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemedynamic schemahybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTyesdepending on storage layerSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTyesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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