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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS

with Redis Modules
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS

with Redis Modules

Spatial DBMS

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Score	26.55
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	155.89
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	3.15
Rank	#90	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

redis.io

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

redis.io/documentation

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2013

2009

Current release

2.0.2, November 2020

6.2.1 , March 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

partial

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

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide limited trigger functionality

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

MVCC based

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Simple password-based access control

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

yes

users and table-level permissions

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Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Redis, benchmarked as the world's fastest database, reduces application complexity,...
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Competitive advantages

Time to Value An end-to-end platform, InfluxData is ready to go on the cloud or via...
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Redis is an in-memory database platform offering native support of wide range of...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT & Sensor Monitoring Instrumentation of every available surface in the material...
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Redis powers personalization, real-time fraud detection, IoT, e-commerce, real-time...
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Key customers

InfluxData has over 630 paying customers, including IBM, PayPal, Siemens Tesla and...
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Verizon, Vodafone, Atlassian, Trip Advisor, Jet.com, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Docker,...
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Market metrics

Fastest growing database to garnish 17,000 github stars Over 260,000 daily active...
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Licensing and pricing models

Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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