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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. MonetDB vs. QuestDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. MonetDB vs. QuestDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#283  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.monetdb.orgquestdb.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationquestdb.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperCloudflareMonetDB BVQuestDB Technology IncTimescale
Initial release2018200420142017
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL with time-series extensionsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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