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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CouchDB vs. Dragonfly vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CouchDB vs. Dragonfly vs. IRONdb

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCloudflareApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerDragonflyDB team and community contributorsCirconus LLC.
Initial release20122018200520232017
Current release1.20.3, January 20233.3.3, December 20231.0, March 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freescheme-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions in JavaScriptLuayes, in Lua
Triggersnonoyespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Automatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databasePassword-based authenticationno

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