DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.39
Rank	#278	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.81
Rank	#144	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

www.geomesa.org

milvus.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Amazon

Cloudflare

CCRi and others

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2019

2011

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.3.4, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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