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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfluxDB vs. Ingres vs. Redis

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Well established RDBMS

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

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

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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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Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

redis.com
redis.io

Technical documentation

docs.heavy.ai

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.actian.com/ingres

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

Developer

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Initial release

2015

2016

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2009

Current release

5.10, January 2022

2.7.6, April 2024

11.2, May 2022

7.2.4, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

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

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Aiven for Redis: Fully managed in-memory key-value store for all your caching and speedy lookup needs.

Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
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

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

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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