DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Datomic vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Datomic vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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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.

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.datomic.com

www.sqlite.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

docs.datomic.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Cloudflare

Cognitect

Dwayne Richard Hipp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2018

2012

2000

2001

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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