DBMS > Altibase vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Altibase

Cloudflare

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1999

2018

1984

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

HP Open VMS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

yes, on a single node

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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