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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Dgraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA 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 metricEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.coveo.comdgraph.iowww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comdgraph.io/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCoveoDgraph Labs, Inc.ElasticEsgyn
Initial release20122016201020152014
Current release8.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, JavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesyesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication via RaftyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectoryesyes
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, allImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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