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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google BigQuery vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

google.github.io/lovefield

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Cloudflare

Google

quasardb

Initial release

2018

2010

2014

2009

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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