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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Altibase vs. Bangdb vs. Milvus vs. Redis

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

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.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.20
Rank	#321	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS
	#143	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

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

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.bangdb.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

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

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Altibase

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Initial release

2016

1999

2012

2019

2009

Current release

2.1, December 2018

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.3.4, January 2024

7.2.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

Vector, Numeric and String

partial

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

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL-92

SQL like support with command line tool

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

stored procedures and stored functions

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

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

Sharding

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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

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