DBMS > Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SQLite vs. Stardog vs. Weaviate vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Cloudflare Workers KV vs. SQLite vs. Stardog vs. Weaviate vs. YDB

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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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.sqlite.org

www.stardog.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.stardog.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Cloudflare

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Stardog-Union

Weaviate B.V.

Yandex

Initial release

2018

2000

2010

2019

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

GraphQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
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

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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