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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Databricks vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Databricks vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.databricks.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.databricks.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAmazonCloudflareDatabricksIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Timescale
Initial release20152018201320102017
Current release2.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesnoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnowith Databricks SQLnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions and aggregatesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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