DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. Manticore Search vs. Redis vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GridGain vs. Manticore Search vs. Redis vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

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 hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

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

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

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

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

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

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Manticore Software

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2007

2017

2009

1984

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

6.0, February 2023

7.2.4, January 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

yes

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

with RediSQL module

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

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

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

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

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes (replicated cache)

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate 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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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