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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Dgraph vs. MongoDB vs. NuoDB vs. TDengine

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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.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

dgraph.io

www.mongodb.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

dgraph.io/docs

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

doc.nuodb.com

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Cloudflare

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

MongoDB, Inc

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2018

2016

2009

2013

2019

Current release

6.0.7, June 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users and roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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