# Redis alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 420 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Redis holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/redis/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Pinecone: 86
- pgvector: 80
- MongoDB: 77
- Qdrant: 41
- Amazon DynamoDB: 14
- Chroma: 13

## NoSQL databases

**Small business**: 54 of 84 answers did not name Redis (Redis is #8 of 10 at 0%).

- MongoDB: first choice in 32 of those 54
- Amazon DynamoDB: first choice in 3 of those 54
- Google Cloud Firestore: first choice in 3 of those 54
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 2 of those 54
- Apache CouchDB: first choice in 1 of those 54
- Azure Cosmos DB: first choice in 1 of those 54
- Couchbase: first choice in 1 of those 54
- PostgreSQL with JSONB columns: first choice in 1 of those 54

**Mid-market**: 55 of 84 answers did not name Redis (Redis is #4 of 13 at 2%).

- MongoDB: first choice in 25 of those 55
- Amazon DynamoDB: first choice in 3 of those 55
- Couchbase: first choice in 1 of those 55
- Google Cloud Firestore: first choice in 1 of those 55
- Google Firebase Firestore: first choice in 1 of those 55
- MongoDB Atlas Free Tier: first choice in 1 of those 55
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 1 of those 55
- ScyllaDB: first choice in 1 of those 55

**Enterprise**: 65 of 84 answers did not name Redis (Redis is #8 of 9 at 2%).

- MongoDB: first choice in 20 of those 65
- Amazon DynamoDB: first choice in 8 of those 65
- Azure Cosmos DB: first choice in 4 of those 65
- Couchbase: first choice in 4 of those 65
- Aerospike: first choice in 1 of those 65
- Apache Cassandra: first choice in 1 of those 65
- DataStax Astra DB: first choice in 1 of those 65
- OpenSearch: first choice in 1 of those 65

## Vector databases

**Small business**: 83 of 84 answers did not name Redis.

- pgvector: first choice in 40 of those 83
- Pinecone: first choice in 20 of those 83
- Qdrant: first choice in 19 of those 83
- Chroma: first choice in 9 of those 83
- Weaviate: first choice in 3 of those 83
- Supabase pgvector: first choice in 1 of those 83

**Mid-market**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Redis (Redis is #10 of 10 at 0%).

- pgvector: first choice in 31 of those 82
- Pinecone: first choice in 25 of those 82
- Qdrant: first choice in 17 of those 82
- Chroma: first choice in 4 of those 82
- Weaviate: first choice in 4 of those 82
- Milvus: first choice in 3 of those 82
- Actian VectorAI DB: first choice in 1 of those 82
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search: first choice in 1 of those 82

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Redis.

- Pinecone: first choice in 41 of those 81
- pgvector: first choice in 9 of those 81
- Qdrant: first choice in 5 of those 81
- Milvus: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Weaviate: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Elastic: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Elasticsearch: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Self-Hosted Qdrant: first choice in 1 of those 81

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