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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Datomic vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Datomic vs. GridGain vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TypeDB

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA multi-model DBMS and application serverTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.datomic.comwww.gridgain.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachetypedb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.datomic.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperCloudflareCognitectGridGain Systems, Inc.InterSystemsVaticle
Initial release20182012200719972016
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023GridGain 8.5.12018.1.4, May 20202.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, C++, .NetJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Cloudflare Workers KVDatomicGridGainInterSystems CachéTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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