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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Memcached vs. OrientDB vs. Vertica

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.32
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.memcached.orgorientdb.orgwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apicloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperCloudflareGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20182015200320102005
Current release1.6.25, March 20243.2.29, March 202412.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language, no joinsFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Proprietary protocolTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava, Javascriptyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
TriggersnononoHooksyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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Cloudflare Workers KVGoogle Cloud BigtableMemcachedOrientDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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