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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CockroachDB vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. CockroachDB vs. Heroic

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperCloudflareCockroach LabsSpotify
Initial release2013201820152014
Current release23.1.1, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoGoJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access control

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