DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GBase vs. MySQL vs. Splunk vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GBase vs. MySQL vs. Splunk vs. TDengine

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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

www.mysql.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Cloudflare

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splunk Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2018

2004

1995

2003

2019

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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