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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Access vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  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.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Oracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-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
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.ehcache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCloudflareTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMicrosoftOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182009199220072001
Current release3.10.0, March 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 201914.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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 indexesnonoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JCacheADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACID infobut no files for transaction loggingconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infooptionallyyes 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 controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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