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

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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.

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

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	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.geomesa.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Cloudflare

CCRi and others

Amazon Web Services

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2018

2014

2021

2022

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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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