DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Elasticsearch vs. GeoMesa

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#303  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score143.75
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.15
Rank#216  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­products/­workers-kvwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.geomesa.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­workers/­runtime-apis/­kvwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.html
DeveloperCloudflareElasticCCRi and others
Initial release201820102014
Current release8.6, January 20234.0.1, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, alldepending on storage layer
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storage

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Cloudflare Workers KVElasticsearchGeoMesa
DB-Engines blog posts

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2017
2 January 2018, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Elasticsearch moved into the top 10 most popular database management systems
3 July 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Cloudflare adds AI services as CTO says "a developer platform ...
16 May 2023, DevClass

Cloudflare Releases Workers KV, a Serverless Key-Value Store at ...
28 May 2019, InfoQ.com

Cloudflare Workers KV, a distributed native key-value store for Cloudflare Workers
1 October 2018, Packt Hub

Cloudflare Raises $1.25 Billion for Startups Using Its Workers Platform
28 September 2022, The New Stack

How Do You Distribute Your Database over Hundreds of Edge ...
10 February 2022, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

Elastic Unveils the Elasticsearch Relevance Engine for Artificial ...
23 May 2023, Business Wire

Elasticsearch Relevance Engine brings new vectors to generative AI
23 May 2023, VentureBeat

Elastic to power generative AI models with Elasticsearch Relevance ...
23 May 2023, SiliconANGLE News

Somehow Amazon's Open Source Fork of ElasticSearch Has ...
14 May 2023, Slashdot

Building A Log Analytics Solution 10 Times More Cost-Effective ...
15 May 2023, hackernoon.com

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Senior Software Engineer
Cloudflare, Austin, TX

Elasticsearch Consultant
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), Remote

Elasticsearch Consultant
Horizon Corp, Phoenix, AZ

SOFTWARE ENGINEER
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Java Engineer
Calypso Way, Seattle, WA

Elasticsearch Engineer
Emonics, Remote

jobs by Indeed



Share this page

Featured Products

MariaDB logo

SkySQL, the ultimate
MariaDB cloud, is here.

Get started with SkySQL today!

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Vertica logo

Vertica Accelerator. The fastest analytics and machine learning, delivered as SaaS, with automated setup, administration, and management. Free trial.

Redis logo

The world’s most loved real‑time data platform.
Try free

Cassandra Forward online event

Want to level up your Cassandra game?
If you missed the event or would like to re-watch a session, replays are available now. Watch now!

Present your product here