DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ReductStore vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ReductStore vs. Teradata Aster

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

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

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Cloudflare

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

ReductStore LLC

Teradata

Initial release

2018

2010

2023

2005

Current release

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Erlang

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Cloudflare updates Workers platform with Python support, event notifications, and improved local development ...
3 April 2024, DevClass

Cloudflare recovers from service outage after power failure at core North American data center
3 November 2023, DatacenterDynamics

Cloudflare dashboard, API service feeling poorly due to datacenter power snafu
2 November 2023, The Register

Cloudflare is (still) struggling with another outage - here's what to know
3 November 2023, ZDNet

Anonymous Sudan DDoS attack hits Cloudflare website
13 November 2023, SC Media

provided by Google News

Cloudant Best (and Worst) Practices — Part 1
18 March 2019, IBM

Intro to Enterprise Cloud Storage: How to Set Up a Cloudant Database
1 December 2014, Linux.com

IBM Expands Cloud Database Services with Kubernetes
26 September 2019, EnterpriseAI

IBM Code Engine and IBM Cloudant: Serverless Data and Infrastructure
16 August 2021, IBM

IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) Provider
22 March 2014, App Developer Magazine

provided by Google News

Northwestern Analytics Partners with Teradata Aster to Host Hackathon
23 May 2014, Northwestern Engineering

Teradata Provides the Simplest Way to Bring the Science of Data to the Art of Business
22 September 2011, PR Newswire

Teradata's Aster shows how the flowers of fraud bloom
23 April 2015, The Register

Case study: Siemens reduces train failures with Teradata Aster
12 September 2016, RCR Wireless News

Teradata unveils improved QueryGrid connectors
21 April 2015, CIO

provided by Google News

Share this page