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DBMS > Coveo vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Heroic vs. TiDB

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.32
Rank#109  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.11
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#76  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.coveo.comwww.gbase.cngeospock.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperCoveoGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockSpotifyPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release2012200420142016
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 20198.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptJavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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CoveoGBaseGeoSpockHeroicTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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