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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HyperSQL vs. Redis vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Graph 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
RDF store

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

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cloud.google.com/bigtable

hsqldb.org

redis.com
redis.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Google

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2015

2001

2009

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

7.2.5, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with RediSQL module

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

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

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

none

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate 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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

in-memory journaling

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 based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Role-based access control

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