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System Properties Comparison Aerospike vs. etcd vs. LokiJS vs. Redis vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Flash-optimized In-memory NoSQL Database

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS

leveraging Apache Tinkerpop
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	5.78
Rank	#61	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#7	Key-value stores
	#2	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

aerospike.com

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

redis.com
redis.io

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.aerospike.com

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Aerospike

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2009

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

7.0, November 2023

3.4, August 2019

7.2.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache and AGPL Licenses; open sourced in June 2014; commercial Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.

Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

via views

yes

with RediSearch module

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JavaScript API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

with Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

none

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Aerospike Aggregation Framework is similar to Map/Reduce

yes

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency in cross-datacenter configuration and Immediate Consistency in local cluster configuration

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

depending on connected data-source

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

with Enterprise Edition only

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

Aerospike is an enterprise-class, NoSQL database solution delivering predictable...
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Competitive advantages

Optimized for use with SSDs (solid-state hard drives) Scales horizontally and vertically...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenarios

Aerospike excels in mission-critical applications that have mixed read/write workloads...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customers

Nielsen, Williams-Sonoma, Inmobi, AppNexus, Telco (confidential), Financial Services...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics

Aerospike's combination of speed, scalability, and reliability delivers 10x performance...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing models

Subscription-based Enterprise Edition and free, open-source Community Edition
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News

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7 May 2024

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4 April 2024

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28 November 2023

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