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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegeospock.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperCloudflareGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014GeoSpockGoogleMachbase
Initial release2018201220142013
Current release2.0, September 20192.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenosimple password-based access control

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