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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Redis vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	155.94
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

www.datomic.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

redis.com
redis.io

rockset.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.datomic.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

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

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cognitect

Chris Davis

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2014

2012

2006

2009

2019

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

7.2.5, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Clojure

Python

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

partial

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

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

with RediSQL module

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

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

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

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

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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