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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Dgraph vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#117	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

dgraph.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

dgraph.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Coveo

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Planned for future releases

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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