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Index Vendors › Redis · September 2026 Edition
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Redis

161Judge labels
5First choices
32Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in NoSQL for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 72 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 54 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In nosql · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Redis for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
NoSQL databasesData platform6%4 of 7222%54accepted challenger
Vector databasesData platform0%17 of 2425%8under 10 labels · led by Qdrant at 37%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Redis yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Redis across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.502305
GPT-5.4 mini04015
Gemini 3.5 Flash01247
Perplexity Sonar03003
Grok 4.1 Fast03317
Mistral Small13217
DeepSeek V4 Flash12238
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash02013
Kimi K203014
GLM 4.7 FlashX12328
MiniMax M2.511204

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct20 labelsNone
Paraphrase20 labels2
Comparative44 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained21 labels3
Scale-constrained28 labelsNone
Negative28 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative161 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“For key-value: Use Redis Cloud for most B2B use cases where low latency and rich data structures are critical.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NoSQL · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“MongoDB and Redis are the easiest to start with due to their free tiers” Mistral Small · NoSQL · budget prompt · first choice
“MongoDB Community Edition or Redis would be the best starting points” MiniMax M2.5 · NoSQL · budget prompt · first choice
“Lowest-latency caching / sessions / real-time state → Redis” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NoSQL · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Risk Level: Critical ... Do not expose Redis to the internet.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NoSQL · negative prompt · hard negative
“using it solely as a vector database is an anti-pattern” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Vector databases · negative prompt · hard negative
“Redis (Be Cautious of the Brand, look at Valkey): ... changed its license ... "source-available" rather than open-source” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
“Redis can be excellent as a cache or fast store, but you should be careful if you need durable, always-on primary storage” GPT-5.4 mini · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Redis, over the 158 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Redis was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
MongoDB131 of 15881Not in the top three
Amazon DynamoDB109 of 15811Not in the top three
Apache Cassandra97 of 1581Not in the top three
Couchbase80 of 1586Not in the top three
Neo4j56 of 1580Not in the top three
Azure Cosmos DB47 of 1583Not in the top three
ScyllaDB43 of 1581Not in the top three
PostgreSQL28 of 1585Not in the top three
Apache CouchDB26 of 1581Not in the top three
Google Cloud Firestore25 of 1586Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Redis. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 108 of the 158 answers that named Redis and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aerospike.com58
mongodb.com36
sourceforge.net36
pingcap.com32
guideflow.com31
couchbase.com26
infoworld.com26
thectoclub.com26
scylladb.com25
db-engines.com24

320 of the 320 domain citations in answers naming Redis came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Redis

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Redis; a claim can dispute any of them.
Redis Open Source 2Redis (Azure Cache, Amazon ElastiCache, Google Memorystore) 1Redis (Open-source) 1Redis (RediSearch) 1Redis (as a primary database) 1Redis Cloud 1Redis Enterprise 1Redis Enterprise Cloud 1Redis Stack (RediSearch) 1
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Redis's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Redis, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at redis.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.