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

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

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvpostgis.netrethinkdb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apipostgis.net/­documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperRackspaceCloudflareThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Timescale
Initial release20132018200520092017
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.4.1, August 20202.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynumerics, 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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser 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
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding inforange basedyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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 controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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