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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SQLite

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.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
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#160  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#287  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score113.82
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperAlibabaCloudflareDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20182000
Current release3.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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