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Azure Cosmos DB vs Redis: What are the differences?

Azure Cosmos DB and Redis are both widely used distributed databases. Let's discuss the key differences between Azure Cosmos DB and Redis:

  1. Database Model: Azure Cosmos DB is a document-oriented database that provides a schema-less data model. It allows you to store and query JSON documents natively. On the other hand, Redis is an in-memory data structure store that supports various data structures such as strings, lists, sets, hashes, and more. It is primarily used as a key-value store.

  2. Scalability and Global Distribution: Azure Cosmos DB offers global distribution and scalable performance out of the box. It ensures low latency access to data from any region around the world and allows you to scale both read and write throughput independently. Redis also provides scalability, but it requires additional configuration and setup to achieve global distribution.

  3. Data Persistence: Azure Cosmos DB offers multiple levels of data consistency, including strong consistency, bounded staleness, session consistency, and eventual consistency. It persists data durably across multiple Azure regions. In contrast, Redis is an in-memory database by default, and you need to configure it for persistence by periodically saving the data to disk or using replication.

  4. Querying Capabilities: Azure Cosmos DB provides a SQL-like query language called SQL API, which allows complex queries on JSON documents. It also supports other APIs like Gremlin (graph database), MongoDB, Cassandra, and Azure Table Storage API. Redis, on the other hand, primarily supports simple key-based operations and does not have built-in support for complex querying.

  5. TTL (Time-to-Live) and Expiry: Azure Cosmos DB allows you to set a time-to-live (TTL) for individual documents, so they automatically expire and get deleted after a specific duration. Redis also supports TTL, but it is more commonly used for setting expiry on individual keys rather than entire documents.

  6. Data Replication and High Availability: Azure Cosmos DB provides automatic multi-region replication to ensure high availability and fault tolerance. It replicates data across multiple regions and provides automatic failover in case of region-wide failures. Redis supports replication as well but requires manual configuration and set up for high availability scenarios.

In summary, choose Azure Cosmos DB if you need a globally distributed, document-oriented database with strong querying capabilities and automatic replication. Choose Redis if you need an in-memory data store with support for various data structures and manual replication setup.

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Pros of Azure Cosmos DB
Pros of Redis
  • 28
    Best-of-breed NoSQL features
  • 22
    High scalability
  • 15
    Globally distributed
  • 14
    Automatic indexing over flexible json data model
  • 10
    Tunable consistency
  • 10
    Always on with 99.99% availability sla
  • 7
    Javascript language integrated transactions and queries
  • 6
    Predictable performance
  • 5
    High performance
  • 5
    Analytics Store
  • 2
    Rapid Development
  • 2
    No Sql
  • 2
    Auto Indexing
  • 2
    Ease of use
  • 886
    Performance
  • 542
    Super fast
  • 513
    Ease of use
  • 444
    In-memory cache
  • 324
    Advanced key-value cache
  • 194
    Open source
  • 182
    Easy to deploy
  • 164
    Stable
  • 155
    Free
  • 121
    Fast
  • 42
    High-Performance
  • 40
    High Availability
  • 35
    Data Structures
  • 32
    Very Scalable
  • 24
    Replication
  • 22
    Great community
  • 22
    Pub/Sub
  • 19
    "NoSQL" key-value data store
  • 16
    Hashes
  • 13
    Sets
  • 11
    Sorted Sets
  • 10
    NoSQL
  • 10
    Lists
  • 9
    Async replication
  • 9
    BSD licensed
  • 8
    Bitmaps
  • 8
    Integrates super easy with Sidekiq for Rails background
  • 7
    Keys with a limited time-to-live
  • 7
    Open Source
  • 6
    Lua scripting
  • 6
    Strings
  • 5
    Awesomeness for Free
  • 5
    Hyperloglogs
  • 4
    Transactions
  • 4
    Outstanding performance
  • 4
    Runs server side LUA
  • 4
    LRU eviction of keys
  • 4
    Feature Rich
  • 4
    Written in ANSI C
  • 4
    Networked
  • 3
    Data structure server
  • 3
    Performance & ease of use
  • 2
    Dont save data if no subscribers are found
  • 2
    Automatic failover
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Temporarily kept on disk
  • 2
    Scalable
  • 2
    Existing Laravel Integration
  • 2
    Channels concept
  • 2
    Object [key/value] size each 500 MB
  • 2
    Simple

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Cons of Azure Cosmos DB
Cons of Redis
  • 18
    Pricing
  • 4
    Poor No SQL query support
  • 15
    Cannot query objects directly
  • 3
    No secondary indexes for non-numeric data types
  • 1
    No WAL

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What is Azure Cosmos DB?

Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service built for fast and predictable performance, high availability, elastic scaling, global distribution, and ease of development.

What is Redis?

Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Redis provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.

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