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Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

In-memory data structure store, used as database, cache and message broker info

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store info

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

Secondary database models

Document store info

with Redis Modules
Graph DBMS info

with Redis Modules
Search engine info

with Redis Modules
Time Series DBMS info

with Redis Modules

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Rank	#227	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	145.64
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Website

www.mcobject.com/extremedbfamily

redis.io

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/eXtremeDB.htm

redis.io/documentation

Developer

McObject

Salvatore Sanfilippo info

Development sponsored by Redis Labs

Initial release

2001

2009

Current release

8.1, November 2019

6.0.1, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

BSD 3-Clause, commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows info

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol info

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
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

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Lua

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Master-master replication info

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Master-slave replication info

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Master-slave replication info

Chained replication is supported
Multi-master replication info

with Redis Enterprise Pack

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

User concepts info

Access control

Simple password-based access control info

Access control lists and SSL are available in the commercial version

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 28 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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