DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Hyprcubd vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Hyprcubd vs. MySQL vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Titan

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Widely used in-process key-value store

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

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

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Cloudflare

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2018

1995

1994

2012

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

token access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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