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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. GigaSpaces vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

www.gigaspaces.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Coveo

Gigaspaces Technologies

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

15.5, September 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

MVCC

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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