DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. SingleStore vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

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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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	7.36
Rank	#53	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

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

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.singlestore.com

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.singlestore.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cloudflare

Google

SingleStore Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2018

2017

2013

2014

2003

Current release

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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

Access rights for users and roles

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