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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Redis

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store info

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

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Score	2.39
Rank	#100	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	146.13
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com/en/products

redis.io

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/en/community/resources

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Exasol

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Initial release

2000

2009

Current release

5.0.5, May 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

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

XML support info

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 RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
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 info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Master-slave replication info

Chained replication is supported
Multi-master replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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