DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Drizzle vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Drizzle vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A 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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Cloudflare

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2018

2008

1995

1984

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

8.3.0, January 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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