DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Cubrid vs. Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. RocksDB

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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.

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#169	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.datomic.com

duckdb.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cubrid.org/manuals

docs.datomic.com

duckdb.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cloudflare

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Cognitect

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2008

2012

2018

2013

Current release

11.0, January 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.10, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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