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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebolt vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebolt vs. Snowflake

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.32
Rank#274  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.84
Rank#206  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score172.01
Rank#6  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.firebolt.iowww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.firebolt.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperCloudflareFirebolt Analytics Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release201820202014
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyes
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Server operating systemshostedhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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