DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. FoundationDB vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Cloudflare

FoundationDB

Circonus LLC.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2013

2017

2009

2020

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

yes

text, numeric, histograms

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

yes, in Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

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