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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. FoundationDB vs. Redis

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store info

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS info

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store info

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

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Trend Chart

Score	22.41
Rank	#29	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.91
Rank	#167	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#31	Key-value stores
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	150.05
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.foundationdb.org

redis.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

apple.github.io/foundationdb

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

FoundationDB

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

Current release

6.2.11, November 2019

6.0.5, June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

yes

schema-free info

some layers support schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

partial

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

XML support info

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

restricted

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

supported in specific SQL layer only

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions info

in Python

in SQL-layer only

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Master-slave replication info

Chained replication is supported
Multi-master replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

in SQL-layer only

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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