DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Ingres vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Ingres 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.

Well established RDBMS

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

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

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.snowflake.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cloudflare

Actian Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2003

Current release

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

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

MVCC

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access rights for users and roles

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