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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Kinetica vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.27
Rank	#108	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.45
Rank	#252	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.95
Rank	#117	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

www.kinetica.com

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

docs.kinetica.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Coveo

Kinetica

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

1984

Current release

7.1, August 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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