DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Redis vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Redis vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

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.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

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

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#297	Overall
	#11	Wide column stores

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

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

surrealdb.com/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Alibaba

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Splunk Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2016

2009

2003

2022

2017

Current release

7.2.5, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with RediSQL module

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
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#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

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 roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Role-based access control

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