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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. Kdb vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. GeoMesa vs. Kdb vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.High performance Time Series DBMSA DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#278  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.70
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#144  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.geomesa.orgkx.commilvus.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcode.kx.commilvus.io/­docs/­overview.md
DeveloperCloudflareCCRi and othersKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSTS Soft SC
Initial release201820142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320192011
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.6, May 20182.3.4, January 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaqC++, GoC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'nono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (q)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyes infowith viewsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerhorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagerights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
More information provided by the system vendor
Cloudflare Workers KVGeoMesaKdbMilvusSTSdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Milvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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RAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Milvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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