DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Geode vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Geode vs. Google BigQuery vs. Kinetica vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

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

geode.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.kinetica.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

geode.apache.org/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.kinetica.com

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Cloudflare

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Google

Kinetica

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2018

2002

2010

2012

2016

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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