DBMS > BaseX vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Snowflake vs. SWC-DB

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

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

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Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML 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

basex.org

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

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Cloudflare

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2007

2018

2014

2020

Current release

11.0, June 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

multiple readers, single writer

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 on 4 levels

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

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