DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. openGemini vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EXASOL vs. InfinityDB vs. openGemini 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 Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.exasol.com

boilerbay.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.exasol.com/resources

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cloudflare

Exasol

Boiler Bay Inc.

Huawei and openGemini community

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2000

2002

2022

2014

Current release

4.0

1.1, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java

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

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

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

Administrators and common users accounts

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

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