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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Coveo vs. DataFS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.coveo.com

newdatabase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.coveo.com

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Cloudflare

Coveo

Mobiland AG

Microsoft

Initial release

2018

2012

2018

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

Windows-Profile

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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