DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SQLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SQLite vs. Teradata Aster vs. Trafodion

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Name

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

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sqlite.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Cloudflare

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Teradata

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

2000

2005

2014

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

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

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

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

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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