Redis vs SQLite: Rating, Votes and Features
- Pricing: Redis — Free, with paid plans; SQLite — Free.
- License: Redis — AGPL-3.0, RSALv2, SSPL-1.0; SQLite — Public domain.
- Data model: Redis — Document, Key-value, Vector; SQLite — Relational.
Redis — November 2026: 6 votes, rating 9.8/10.
SQLite — November 2026: 2 votes, rating 9.6/10.
| Redis | SQLite | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | database engine | database engine |
| Developer | Redis Ltd. | SQLite team |
| Created by | Salvatore Sanfilippo | D. Richard Hipp |
| First release | 2009 | 2000 |
| License | AGPL-3.0, RSALv2, SSPL-1.0 | Public domain |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing | Free, with paid plans | Free |
| Website | https://redis.io | https://sqlite.org |
| Written in | C | C |
| Data model | Document, Key-value, Vector | Relational |
| Storage layout | In-memory | Row-oriented |
| Workload | Cache | Transactions (OLTP) |
| Analytics architecture | Not an analytics platform | Not an analytics platform |
| Query language | Redis commands | SQL |
| ACID transactions | No | Yes |
| Schema | Flexible | Flexible |
| Deployment | Managed cloud, Server | Embedded |
| Scaling | Sharding | Single node |
| Create, read, update, delete | Create: fast (Everything happens in memory); Read: fast (Sub-millisecond lookups by key); Update: fast (Atomic operations on data structures); Delete: fast (Immediate, plus expiry by time) | Create: moderate (Fast in a transaction, one writer at a time); Read: fast (Reads straight from a local file, no network); Update: moderate (One writer at a time); Delete: moderate (Freed pages are reused, VACUUM shrinks the file) |