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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. OpenSearch vs. Sequoiadb

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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 distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.22
Rank	#108	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	17.19
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Search engines
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#273	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Coveo

The OpenSearch Software Foundation

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2021

2013

Current release

2.19, February 2025

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

simple password-based access control

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