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NameRedis
DescriptionPopular 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.
Primary database modelKey-value store infoMultiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence
Secondary database modelsDocument store infowith RedisJSON
Graph DBMS infowith RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infowith RediSearch
Time Series DBMS infowith RedisTimeSeries
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score168.13
Rank#6  Overall
#1  Key-value stores
Websiteredis.com
redis.io
Technical documentationdocs.redis.com/­latest/­index.html
redis.io/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeDiscord
DeveloperRedis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo infoDevelopment sponsored by Redis Inc.
Initial release2009
Current release7.0.11, April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infosource-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows infoported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
Data schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infowith RediSearch module
SQL infoSupport of SQLno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocol
Supported programming languagesC
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoAutomatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infowith Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication infoChained replication is supported
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsthrough RedisGears
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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
More information provided by the system vendor
Redis
Specific characteristics

The Redis real-time data platform builds upon the unmatched simplicity and speed of Open-Source Redis along with an enterprise grade data platform that offers robustness of modern data models, management, automation, performance and resiliency to deploy and run modern applications at any scale from anywhere on the planet. It provides a single data source for multi-model and sub-millisecond performance at any scale, anywhere: on-premises, private, public, and multicloud. Redis is the most used real-time database on the planet designed for continuous analytics, search, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Competitive advantages

Redis Enterprise is a robust in-memory database platform built by the people who develop open source Redis. It maintains the simplicity and high performance of Redis, while adding many enterprise-grade capabilities, such as linear scaling to hundreds of millions of operations per second, Active-Active geo-replication with local latency, Redis on Flash to tier data across dynamic and persistent memory and solid-state disk (SSD) to reduce total cost of ownership, and five-nines (99.999%) uptime based on built-in durability and single-digit-seconds failover. 

Redis Enterprise can be deployed as a software on-premises, fully managed service over public clouds (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure), or in multicloud and hybrid architectures to avoid vendor lock-in. 

Redis offers Strings, Hashes, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Bitmaps, Bitfields, HyperLogLog, Geospatial indexes, and Streams as native data structures. For every data structure, Redis maintains dedicated commands to allow execution of multi-type operations in an effective manner. 

Redis Enterprise supports many data modeling methods with modules such as RediSearch, RedisJSON, RedisGraph, RedisTimeSeries, RedisBloom, and RedisAI, and allows operations to be executed across and between modules and core Redis functionality using RedisGears, a serverless engine that runs across shards and nodes of Redis Enterprise cluster. All this while keeping database latency under one millisecond, so your application can respond instantaneously.

Typical application scenarios

Redis Enterprise is used by large enterprise, startup, and government organizations to power use cases such as real-time fraud detection, global user session management, real-time inventory management, feature store for AI/ML, claims processing, and more.  

Common use cases include (but not limited to):

  • Caching

  • High-speed transaction

  • Data ingest

  • Distributed messaging

  • Real-time analytics

  • Rate limiting 

  • De-duplication

Key customers

Verizon, Vodafone, Atlassian, Trip Advisor, Jet.com, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Docker, Staples, Intuit, Groupon, Shutterfly, KPMG, TD Bank, UnitedHealthcare, RingCentral, The Motley Fool, Bleacher Report, HipChat, Salesforce, Hotel Tonight, Cirruspath, Itslearning.com, Xignite, Chargify, Rumble Entertainment, Scopely, Havas Digital, Revmob, MSN, Bleacher Report, Mobli, TMZ, Klarna, Shopify.

See who else is a customer, here.

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Licensing and pricing models

Redis Enterprise Cloud lets users scale up and down instantly, and pay only for the resources they need in a completely serverless fashion. Users can start using the service with any of the four different plans (free, fixed, flexible, and annual), and have the freedom and flexibility to move between plans according to the application needs.

Redis Enterprise Software is licensed according to the number of shards (Redis processes) in a cluster. Redis Enterprise Software is available as a free download for trial.

Learn more about our cloud and software pricing models and get started today. 


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