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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Trafodion vs. Transbase

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Widely used in-process key-value storeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMSRelational 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
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmltrafodion.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apicloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCloudflareGoogleOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20182015199420141987
Current release18.1.40, May 20202.3.0, February 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++, JavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Proceduresyes
Triggersnonoyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesSource-replica replicationyes, via HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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