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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. OpenSearch

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Cloudflare

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2018

2014

2001

2021

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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