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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Redis vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries

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Score	3.47
Rank	#95	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#242	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#19	Time Series DBMS

Score	179.02
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#345	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores

Website

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

redis.com
redis.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGNPV_2.0.0/welcome.html

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

Social network pages

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2017

2009

2011

Current release

2.0

7.0.0, April 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

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

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

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

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-active shard replication

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual 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

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

No - written data is immutable

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/topics/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/topics/encryption
Password-based authentication

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