DBMS > Cassandra vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Milvus

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Milvus

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

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

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

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

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.kinetica.com

milvus.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.heavy.ai

docs.kinetica.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Cloudflare

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kinetica

Initial release

2008

2018

2016

2012

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

7.1, August 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

C, C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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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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