DBMS > FaunaDB vs. GridGain vs. Redis vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison FaunaDB vs. GridGain vs. Redis vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Strongly consistent database capable of global horizontal scale with a focus on operational simplicity

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

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.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing info

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store info

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

Key-value store

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	1.86
Rank	#127	Overall
	#19	Document stores
	#8	Graph DBMS
	#63	Relational DBMS
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.22
Rank	#122	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	151.86
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#297	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

fauna.com

www.gridgain.com

redis.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/latest

redis.io/documentation

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2007

2009

2011

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

6.0.8, September 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Open Source info

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Lua

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning info

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication info

Chained replication is supported

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

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

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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