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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Memgraph vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. Redis

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

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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Score	2.85
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	149.43
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

memgraph.com/docs

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

doc.quasar.ai/master

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

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Memgraph Ltd

Pinecone Systems, Inc

quasardb

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

2009

Current release

30.0.0, June 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

7.2.5, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

yes

integer and binary

partial

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

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 tags

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Python

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

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

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

through RedisGears

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

Users, roles and permissions

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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

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