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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google BigQuery vs. Memcached

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.39
Rank	#278	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Cloudflare

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2018

2010

2003

Current release

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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