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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Graphite vs. Redis vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

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

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition

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Score	0.68
Rank	#205	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.62
Rank	#79	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	152.57
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	50.22
Rank	#21	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com/extremedbfamily

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

redis.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

graphite.readthedocs.io

redis.io/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

McObject

Chris Davis

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

SAP

Initial release

2001

2006

2009

2010

Current release

8.2, November 2020

6.2.0 , February 2021

2.0 SPS05 (June 26, 2020), June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Python

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
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

yes

Lua

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

locking

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

Simple password-based access control

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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