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DBMS > Coveo vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sphinx vs. Yanza

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NameCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentWidely used open source RDBMSRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.14
Rank#116  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score3.50
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.coveo.comwww.mysql.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsphinxsearch.comyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comdev.mysql.com/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheresphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCoveoOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunSAP infoformerly SybaseSphinx Technologies Inc.Yanza
Initial release20121995199220012015
Current release9.0.0, July 202417, July 20153.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlgranular access controls, API key management, content filtersUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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