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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Sphinx

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Spatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irissphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCloudflareCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetInterSystemsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20182013200820182001
Current release2.3.4, January 20212023.3, June 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibledepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javayesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesno
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Cloudflare Workers KVH2GISHBaseInterSystems IRISSphinx
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