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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google BigQuery vs. YDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Altibase

Cloudflare

Google

Yandex

Initial release

1999

2018

2010

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-passive shard 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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