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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Dragonfly vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Neo4j vs. Quasardb

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#278  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.42
Rank#271  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score3.58
Rank#92  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score44.47
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
cloud.google.com/­bigtableneo4j.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsneo4j.com/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCloudflareDragonflyDB team and community contributorsGoogleNeo4j, Inc.quasardb
Initial release20182023201520072009
Current release1.0, March 20235.19, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes infovia event handlerno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes using Neo4j FabricSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesCausal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsAtomic single-row operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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