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DBMS > Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Elasticsearch

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Elasticsearch

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.30
Rank#104  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score102.66
Rank#12  Overall
#2  Document stores
#8  Relational DBMS
Score123.81
Rank#9  Overall
#1  Search engines
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.coveo.comwww.databricks.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comdocs.databricks.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperCoveoDatabricksElastic
Initial release201220132010
Current release8.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesyes
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.noMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filters

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