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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. PostgreSQL vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	0.02
Rank	#374	Overall
	#52	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#56	Key-value stores
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	644.36
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

arcadedb.com

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

www.postgresql.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.postgresql.org/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Arcade Data

Cloudflare

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2021

2018

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2019

Current release

September 2021

16.4, August 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

standard with numerous extensions

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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