DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Redis

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Redis

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

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.

Primary database model

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

Secondary database models

Vector 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	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

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

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

boilerbay.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

redis.com
redis.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

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

Developer

Google

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Initial release

2008

2002

1992

2015

2009

Current release

4.0

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

7.2.5, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

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

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

yes

using Azure authentication

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

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