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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebird vs. NCache

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score79.30
Rank#15  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score0.32
Rank#274  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score16.66
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#203  Overall
#30  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCloudflareFirebird FoundationAlachisoft
Initial release201220182000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2005
Current release5.0.1, August 20245.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationscommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPSQLno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdanoyesyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionnoACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users with fine-grained authorization conceptAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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