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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Redis

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Redis

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRedis  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA widely adopted in-memory data gridSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentPopular 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.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engineKey-value store infoMultiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector 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
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score155.94
Rank#6  Overall
#1  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgehazelcast.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchredis.com
redis.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.redis.com/­latest/­index.html
redis.io/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationHazelcastMicrosoftRedis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo infoDevelopment sponsored by Redis Inc.
Initial release20131979200820152009
Current releaseV3, October 20205.3.6, November 2023V17.2.5, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infosource-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoANSI C, C++JavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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.noyesyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infowith RediSearch module
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesSQL-like query languagenowith RediSQL module
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoLua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoAutomatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes infoReplicated Mapyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infowith Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication infoChained replication is supported
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnothrough RedisGears
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Role-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess 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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