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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GigaSpaces vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GigaSpaces vs. PostGIS vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.91
Rank#197  Overall
#33  Document stores
#7  Object oriented DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.gigaspaces.compostgis.netwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperRackspaceCloudflareGigaspaces TechnologiesTimescale
Initial release20132018200020052017
Current release15.5, September 20203.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatayesyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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