DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. RocksDB

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.32
Rank	#283	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

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

hbase.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

hbase.apache.org/book.html

origodb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cloudflare

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2018

2008

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

4.4, October 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Role based authorization

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