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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CrateDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CrateDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Distributed Database based on LuceneA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcratedb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apicratedb.com/­docsdocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCloudflareCrateHEAVY.AI, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2018201320162015
Current release5.10, January 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)nono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authentication

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