DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL vs. OpenMLDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. MySQL vs. OpenMLDB

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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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

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

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.mysql.com

openmldb.ai

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

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

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

dev.mysql.com/doc

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

Cloudflare

CCRi and others

IBM

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2018

2014

1983

host version

1995

2020

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

12.1, October 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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