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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. MaxDB vs. SwayDB

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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 robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.27
Rank	#108	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	1.95
Rank	#117	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#393	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Website

www.coveo.com

maxdb.sap.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Coveo

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

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

1984

2018

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

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