DBMS > Citus vs. GridGain vs. Interbase vs. Redis vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GridGain vs. Interbase vs. Redis vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.gridgain.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

redis.com
redis.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Embarcadero

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2010

2007

1984

2009

2008

Current release

8.1, December 2018

GridGain 8.5.1

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.2.4, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

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

yes

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

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

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

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

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

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

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes (replicated cache)

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

none

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
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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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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