DBMS > Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Fauna vs. Google BigQuery vs. H2

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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.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

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

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

www.databricks.com

fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.databricks.com

docs.fauna.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Coveo

Databricks

Fauna, Inc.

Google

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2010

2005

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Python
R
Scala

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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