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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. H2 vs. KeyDB vs. Sphinx

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#232  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.keydb.devsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCloudflareThomas MuellerEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142018200520192001
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsLuano
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLno

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