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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. MySQL vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.mysql.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

dev.mysql.com/doc

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Coveo

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

1995

2018

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes, details here

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role-based access control

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