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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apicloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperCloudflareDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20182008201520142008
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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 indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-row operationsnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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