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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Ehcache vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.ehcache.orgwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCloudflareTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHarperDBSpotify
Initial release20182009201720142014
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON data typesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like data manipulation statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JCacheJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceAtomic execution of specific operationsnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes, using LMDByesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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