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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A multi-model DBMS and application serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCloudflareInterSystemsVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2018199720142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2011
Current release2018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20187.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
TriggersnoyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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