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

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

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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
Score0.29
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-databasegoogle.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 2014Hypertable Inc.GoogleMachbase
Initial release20182012200920142013
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesnoyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-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
C++ API
Thrift
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
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 nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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.noyes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesnonosimple password-based access control

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