DBMS > Coveo vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. HEAVY.AI vs. OpenSearch vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.28
Rank	#114	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.coveo.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.heavy.ai

opensearch.org/docs/latest

origodb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Coveo

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Robert Friberg et al

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2016

2021

2009

under the name LiveDB

2009

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

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

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Domain Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

yes, using Riak Security

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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