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DBMS > Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Google Cloud Spanner

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Databricks vs. Google Cloud Spanner

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  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 horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational 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
Score2.56
Rank#97  Overall
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.coveo.comwww.databricks.comcloud.google.com/­spanner
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comdocs.databricks.comcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docs
DeveloperCoveoDatabricksGoogle
Initial release201220132017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyes
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Server operating systemshostedhostedhosted
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)yes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolation
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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