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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. TDengine vs. Trafodion

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformTime Series DBMS and big data platformTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorergithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerdocs.tdengine.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCloudflareMicrosoftTDEngine, previously Taos DataApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2018201920192014
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases3.0, August 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAzure Active Directory Authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Cloudflare Workers KVMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerTDengineTrafodion
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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