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System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sphinx vs. Transbase

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.Widely used in-process key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Search engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.39
Rank#278  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score2.52
Rank#114  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlsphinxsearch.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apidocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCloudflareOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSphinx Technologies Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release2018199420011987
Current release18.1.40, May 20203.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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