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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. HBase vs. Transbase

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orghbase.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCloudflareEsgynFirebird FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release201820152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20081987
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.3.4, January 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresPSQLyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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