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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Machbase Neo vs. Memcached vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.28
Rank#114  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.coveo.commachbase.comwww.memcached.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.commachbase.com/­dbmsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCoveoMachbaseDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122013200319842001
Current releaseV8.0, August 20231.6.25, March 20247.4.1.1, 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
HP Open VMSFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnonoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filterssimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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