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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Riak KV vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Document store

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Trend Chart

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

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

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

cloud.google.com/datastore

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Cloudflare

Google

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

8Kdata

Initial release

2018

2008

2009

2016

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

Erlang

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

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