DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Key-value store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.jaguardb.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Cloudflare

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Teradata

Initial release

2018

2015

1989

2011

2005

Current release

3.3 July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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