DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.exasol.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.heavy.ai

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cloudflare

Exasol

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2000

2016

2014

Current release

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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 according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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