DBMS > FeatureBase vs. MonetDB vs. Redis vs. Splunk vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. MonetDB vs. Redis vs. Splunk vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	155.94
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

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

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

MonetDB BV

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2017

2004

2009

2003

2009

Current release

2022, May 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

7.2.5, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

with RediSQL module

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

yes

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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