DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Redis vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Redis vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Document store

Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

redis.com
redis.io

rockset.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

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

docs.rockset.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Hazelcast

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Rockset

Alex Kashirin

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2009

2019

2020

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

7.2.4, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

dynamic typing

optional

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

with RediSQL module

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Automatic sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

ACID

configurable

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

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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