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DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. PouchDB vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. PouchDB vs. Realm

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NameCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.39
Rank#278  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websitewww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvpouchdb.comrealm.io
Technical documentationdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apipouchdb.com/­guidesrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperCloudflareApache Software FoundationRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release201820122014
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
JavaScript.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes

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