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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Heroic vs. Memcached vs. mSQL

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.memcached.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apispotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperCloudflareSpotifyDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalHughes Technologies
Initial release20132018201420031994
Current release1.6.25, March 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes
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 indexesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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