DBMS > FoundationDB vs. Redis vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. Redis vs. Riak TS vs. SiteWhere vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

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.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS

Relational 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

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/apple/foundationdb

redis.com
redis.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

apple.github.io/foundationdb

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

FoundationDB

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SiteWhere

Splice Machine

Initial release

2013

2009

2015

2010

2014

Current release

6.2.28, November 2020

7.2.5, May 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

some layers support schemas

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

some layers support typing

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

supported in specific SQL layer only

with RediSQL module

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP REST

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

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

Erlang

yes

Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

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

in SQL-layer only

links between datasets can be stored

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

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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