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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Kdb vs. SQLite vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

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

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

impala.apache.org

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

kx.com

www.sqlite.org

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

code.kx.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Cloudflare

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Teradata

Initial release

2013

2018

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2000

1984

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

3.6, May 2018

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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