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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. FoundationDB vs. RisingWave vs. SWC-DB

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

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionA 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 RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.risingwave.com/­databasegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperCloudflareFoundationDBRisingWave LabsAlex Kashirin
Initial release2018201320222020
Current release6.2.28, November 20201.2, September 20230.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++RustC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenono infosome layers support typingStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and Roles

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