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DBMS > Coveo vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PlanetScale vs. Riak KV

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.coveo.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
planetscale.com
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.heavy.aiplanetscale.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCoveoGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HEAVY.AI, Inc.PlanetScaleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122012201620202009
Current release5.10, January 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAGoErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationschema-freeyesyesschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoproprietary syntaxErlang
TriggersyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes, using Riak Security

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