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System Properties Comparison Redis vs. Tarantool

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Name

Description

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.

In-memory database with an integrated application server

Primary database model

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 Redis Modules
Graph DBMS

with Redis Modules
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS

with Redis Modules

Document store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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

Score	1.42
Rank	#139	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores

Website

redis.io

www.tarantool.io

Technical documentation

redis.io/documentation

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Mail.ru Group

Initial release

2009

2008

Current release

6.2.1 , March 2021

2.4.2, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

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

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

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
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide limited trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Hash sharding based on virtual buckets

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes, with SQL

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID, read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

Simple password-based access control

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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