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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Ignite vs. KeyDB vs. Redis

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Name

Description

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

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

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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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Trend Chart

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.80
Rank	#219	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	156.44
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

www.bigchaindb.com

ignite.apache.org

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

redis.com
redis.io

Technical documentation

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.keydb.dev

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Initial release

2016

2015

2019

2009

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.2.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

by using the Redis Search module

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

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

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

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

Lua

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

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

simple password-based access control and ACL

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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