DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

kylin.apache.org

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

www.snowflake.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Cloudflare

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2015

2018

2014

2020

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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 for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.