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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EDB Postgres vs. Kdb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	7.73
Rank	#45	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.enterprisedb.com

kx.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

code.kx.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Cloudflare

EnterpriseDB

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

2005

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2000

Current release

14, December 2021

3.6, May 2018

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing models

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