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DBMS > Coveo vs. Elasticsearch vs. Pinecone vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Elasticsearch vs. Pinecone vs. SAP IQ

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentA 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 metricA managed, cloud-native vector databaseColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineVector DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.coveo.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperCoveoElasticPinecone Systems, IncSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release2012201020191994
Current release8.6, January 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop ConnectornoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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