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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Lovefield

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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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Cloudflare

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Google

Initial release

2018

2009

2010

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JCache

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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