DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Snowflake

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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.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.30
Rank	#286	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	3.24
Rank	#87	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	136.53
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cloudflare

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

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

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

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