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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces InsightEdge vs. Redis vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS

with Redis Modules
Search engine

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS

with Redis Modules

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#222	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#13	Object oriented DBMS

Score	154.15
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	71.43
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gigaspaces.com

redis.io

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

redis.io/documentation

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Gigaspaces Technologies

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Teradata

Initial release

2000

2009

1984

Current release

15.5, September 2020

6.2.0 , February 2021

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
Python
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
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

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

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

Simple password-based access control

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

GigaSpaces, the pioneer of In-Memory Computing , drives enterprise digital transformation...
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Redis, benchmarked as the world's fastest database, reduces application complexity,...
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Competitive advantages

AI Driven Autonomous Operations – GigaSpaces’ unique AI driven technology simplifies...
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Redis is an in-memory database platform offering native support of wide range of...
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Typical application scenarios

Application Acceleration, Smart Caching, BI Acceleration on Fresh Data, Digital Integration...
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Redis powers personalization, real-time fraud detection, IoT, e-commerce, real-time...
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Key customers

Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, PriceRunner, Cerner, Societe Generale,...
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Verizon, Vodafone, Atlassian, Trip Advisor, Jet.com, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Docker,...
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Market metrics

Forrester has positioned GigaSpaces as a strong performer in The Forrester Wave™:...
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Licensing and pricing models

GigaSpaces offers both open source and commercial editions with annual subscriptions....
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The licensing model is subscription based. Redis Enterprise Cloud is priced according...
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