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

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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  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.Well established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.netwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentationdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperRackspaceCloudflareActian CorporationTimescale
Initial release201320181974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20052017
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
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
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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