DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

www.eventstore.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

developers.eventstore.com

kairosdb.github.io

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

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cloudflare

Event Store Limited

Google

Initial release

2012

2018

2012

2013

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

simple password-based access control

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