Convex vs Redis

Convex

Redis

Convex · 18 features

• Actions — Non-deterministic functions for external I/O (fetch, AI APIs, email). Cannot rea…
• Authentication — Convex Auth (built-in) or BYO provider (Clerk, Auth0, Kinde, WorkOS). ID tokens …
• Convex Agents — AI agent framework with durable memory, threads, tool use. Works with OpenAI / A…
• Convex Auth — First-party auth library: passwords, magic links, OAuth, phone — stored in your …
• Convex Components — Reusable backend modules (rate limiter, workflow, aggregate, action-retrier, etc…
• Cron Jobs — Recurring schedules defined in convex/crons.ts. UTC, cron-style patterns.
• Durable Workflows — Long-running multi-step workflows with retries and at-least-once guarantees.
• Exception Reporting — Auto-capture errors to Sentry, Axiom, Datadog.
• File Storage — Upload/download via storage API. Returns storage IDs referenced in documents.
• Full-Text Search — BM25 search index on table fields. withSearchIndex query helper.
• HTTP Actions — Expose public HTTP endpoints for webhooks, OAuth callbacks, third-party integrat…
• Log Streams — Stream function logs to Axiom, Datadog, Sentry. Pro+.
• Mutations — Transactional write functions. All reads + writes in one mutation are ACID; conf…
• Preview Deployments — Every Git branch gets its own isolated deployment. Integrates with Vercel/Netlif…
• Queries — Deterministic read-only TS functions. Automatically cached and re-run when under…
• Real-Time Subscriptions — useQuery auto-subscribes; server invalidates when data a query read changes. No …
• Scheduler — schedule.after / schedule.at — enqueue functions to run later. Durable, survives…
• Vector Search — Native vector index on tables. withIndex + filter fields. Up to 4096 dims.

Redis · 21 features

• Active-Active (CRDT) — Multi-region live-write replication.
• Auto-Tiering (Flex) — RAM + SSD tiered storage.
• Bitmaps + Bitfields — Compact boolean storage.
• Geo — Geospatial queries on lat/lon.
• Hashes — Field-value maps per key.
• HyperLogLog — Probabilistic cardinality.
• Lists — Linked list — push/pop/range.
• Lua Scripting — Server-side Lua + Functions.
• Pub/Sub — Channel-based messaging.
• RedisBloom — Bloom + Cuckoo + Count-Min Sketch + TopK.
• Redis Cluster — Horizontal sharding.
• RediSearch — Full-text + vector search engine.
• RedisInsight — Official GUI for Redis.
• RedisJSON — Native JSON document support.
• RedisTimeSeries — Time-series data type.
• Replication — Primary-replica async replication.
• Sets — Unique element sets.
• Sorted Sets (ZSet) — Score-ranked sets for leaderboards.
• Streams — Append-only log (Kafka-like).
• Strings — Primitive + binary-safe key-value.
• Transactions (MULTI/EXEC) — Atomic command batches.