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System Properties Comparison GridGain vs. MonetDB vs. Redis vs. SAP HANA vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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.

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.48
Rank	#150	Overall
	#1	Columnar
	#26	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	149.43
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.gridgain.com

www.monetdb.org

redis.com
redis.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

MonetDB BV

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2007

2004

2009

2010

2018

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

7.2.5, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial, open source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Atomic execution of operations

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
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

yes

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