DBMS > Coveo vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splice Machine vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

www.h2gis.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

splicemachine.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Coveo

CNRS

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

2013

1989

2014

2009

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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