Redis vs. LanceDB
Compare Redis vs. LanceDB by the following set of capabilities. We want you to choose the best database for you, even if it’s not us.
Redis vs. LanceDB on Scalability
No. Redis primarily operates by keeping data in memory. The classic architecture of Redis does not inherently follow the storage-compute separation architecture. Instead, it tightly couples data storage and computation in the same node or instance to ensure data access performance.
Yes.
No. It only scales at the server level. In addition, you need to reshard all the data when scaling out a Redis cluster.
Yes - built-in replication; HA provided in an additional layer by Reis Cluster or Redis Sentinel)
With Redis Enteprise
No (static data sharding coming soon)
Redis Scalability
High Availabiltiy can be achieved with Redis Enterprise.
LanceDB
LanceDB is an open-source vector database that's designed to store, manage, query and retrieve embeddings on multi-modal data. LanceDB and its underlying data format, Lance, are built to scale to really large amounts of data (hundreds of terabytes, 200M+ vectors).
Redis vs. LanceDB on Functionality
Performance is the biggest challenge with vector databases as the number of unstructured data elements stored in a vector database grows into hundreds of millions or billions, and horizontal scaling across multiple nodes becomes paramount.
Furthermore, differences in insert rate, query rate, and underlying hardware may result in different application needs, making overall system tunability a mandatory feature for vector databases.
Yes - Pre-filtering documents against an index containing searchable fields
Yes, vector search & keyword search
HNSW & IVFFlat
IVF-PQ, HNSW
(LanceDB adopts a disk-based indexing philosophy.)
Redis
Redis has supprt for similarity queries search with the use of vector fields; It is important to note that the k default LIMIT is 10.
Redis vs. LanceDB on Purpose-built
Add on to Redis
No
Python for Vector Search
Python, Javascript/Typescript, and Rust
Redis vs. LanceDB: what’s right for me?
Redis is an in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine that has a vector field type for the storage, querying and indexing of vectors.
License: BSD License
LanceDB
LanceDB is an open-source vector database that's designed to store, manage, query and retrieve embeddings on multi-modal data. It also provides a SaaS solution called LanceDB Cloud that runs serverless in the cloud.
Apache 2.0
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