DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. mSQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. mSQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Cloudflare

Hughes Technologies

Splice Machine

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2018

1994

2014

2000

2022

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.1, March 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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