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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EJDB vs. MySQL 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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Widely used open source RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.39
Rank	#278	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.mysql.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Cloudflare

Softmotions

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

2012

1995

2000

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

FreeBSD
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

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

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

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

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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