DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

In-memory caching system

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

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

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

cachelot.io

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

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cloudflare

Google

Initial release

2012

2015

2018

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Memcached protocol

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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