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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GBase vs. LMDB vs. Newts vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.gbase.cn

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.lmdb.tech/doc

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Cloudflare

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Symas

OpenNMS Group

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2018

2004

2011

2014

1998

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9.32, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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