DBMS > Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Faircom DB vs. SAP HANA vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Faircom DB vs. SAP HANA vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

The 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.

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	81.08
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

www.databricks.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.databricks.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

help.sap.com/hana

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Coveo

Databricks

FairCom Corporation

SAP

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2013

1979

2010

2019

Current release

V12, November 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Python
R
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

yes

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