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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. Memgraph

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2memgraph.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apifirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2memgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCloudflareGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Community supported by Red HatIBMMemgraph Ltd
Initial release2018201220141983 infohost version2017
Current release12.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replication using RAFT
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions
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Cloudflare Workers KVFirebase Realtime DatabaseHawkular MetricsIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2Memgraph
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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