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System Properties Comparison Oracle Coherence vs. Redis vs. Snowflake vs. SwayDB vs. TDengine

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NameOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRedis  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOracles in-memory data grid solutionPopular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments infoRedis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store infoMultiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistenceRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infowith RedisJSON
Graph DBMS infowith RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infowith RediSearch
Time Series DBMS infowith RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score155.94
Rank#6  Overall
#1  Key-value stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceredis.com
redis.io
www.snowflake.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.redis.com/­latest/­index.html
redis.io/­docs
docs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperOracleRedis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo infoDevelopment sponsored by Redis Inc.Snowflake Computing Inc.Simer PlahaTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20072009201420182019
Current release14.1, August 20237.2.5, May 20243.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infosource-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis EnterprisecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCScalaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infowith RediSearch modulenono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith RediSQL moduleyesnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)user defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infoLive Eventspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGearsno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoAutomatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual shardingyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infowith Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication infoChained replication is supported
yesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnothrough RedisGearsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataconfigurableAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic lockingACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoData access is serialized by the serveryesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptionallyyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess 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
Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Oracle CoherenceRedisSnowflakeSwayDBTDengine
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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