DBMS > Coveo vs. Infobright vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Infobright vs. Memcached vs. Snowflake

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.memcached.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Coveo

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2005

2003

2014

Current release

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

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

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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