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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Dragonfly vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx vs. SQLite

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 instancemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperCloudflareDragonflyDB team and community contributorsHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20182023199420012000
Current release1.0, March 20234.4, October 20213.5.1, February 20233.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freescheme-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
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++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanonono
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the servernoyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnonono

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