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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. DuckDB vs. Ehcache vs. Sphinx

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvduckdb.orgwww.ehcache.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiduckdb.org/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCloudflareTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2018201820092001
Current release1.0.0, June 20243.10.0, March 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JCacheProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
JavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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