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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. H2 vs. Redis vs. searchxml vs. Typesense

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NameAmazon DynamoDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRedis  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments infoRedis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value store infoMultiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistenceNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infowith RedisJSON
Graph DBMS infowith RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infowith RediSearch
Time Series DBMS infowith RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score74.07
Rank#17  Overall
#3  Document stores
#2  Key-value stores
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score157.80
Rank#6  Overall
#1  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.79
Rank#210  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.h2database.comredis.com
redis.io
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productstypesense.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­dynamodbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.redis.com/­latest/­index.html
redis.io/­docs
www.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutstypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazonThomas MuellerRedis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo infoDevelopment sponsored by Redis Inc.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122005200920152015
Current release2.2.220, July 20237.2.4, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree tier for a limited amount of database operationsOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infosource-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis EnterprisecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith RediSearch moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyeswith RediSQL modulenono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC
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++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsLua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)yes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyes infoby integration with AWS Lambdayespublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGearsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoAutomatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication infowith Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication infoChained replication is supported
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nothrough RedisGearsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate ConsistencyEventual 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 infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and regionACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic lockingmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoData access is serialized by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess 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
Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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