DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Alibaba

Cloudflare

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2016

2018

2014

2003

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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