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NoSQL databases · November 2026 Edition

Redis vs Azure Cosmos DB

Zero of fourteen models named Redis first on the direct prompt; zero named Azure Cosmos DB. Redis was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Azure Cosmos DB by twelve and Redis carries 56 labels and Azure Cosmos DB 24, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Redis

accepted challenger

Named in two categories this edition.

Azure Cosmos DB

criticized challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share2%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate21%25%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#6A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels5624A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Redis reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.MongoDB was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. MongoDB vs Redis · MongoDB vs Azure Cosmos DB · Amazon DynamoDB vs Redis

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the nosql databases page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
RedisFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAzure Cosmos DB
Direct002 against Redis
Paraphrase101 against Redis
Comparative00
Budget-constrained001 against Redis · 2 against Azure Cosmos DB
Scale-constrained012 against Azure Cosmos DB
Negative008 against Redis · 2 against Azure Cosmos DB
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Redis and Azure Cosmos DB were named in the same answer fifty-four times, of the 152 answers naming Redis and the 103 naming Azure Cosmos DB. In those answers Azure Cosmos DB took the first choice four times and Redis one.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Redis and Azure Cosmos DB stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Redis Azure Cosmos DB first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Redis on the left and Azure Cosmos DB on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Redis and Azure Cosmos DB stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB alternatives: Firebase, Redis
GPT-5.4 miniAmazon DynamoDB, MongoDB alternatives: Azure Cosmos DB
Gemini 3.5 FlashMongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase, Neo4j, Redis
Perplexity SonarMongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase, Neo4j, ScyllaDB
Kimi K2MongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Couchbase, Redis
GLM 4.7 FlashXMongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Azure Cosmos DB, Couchbase

Neither was named

8 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Grok 4.20MongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Couchbase, Elasticsearch
Mistral SmallMongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB
DeepSeek V4 FlashMongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, Apache Cassandra, Couchbase, DataStax
Llama 4 MaverickMongoDB
Qwen 3.7 FlashMongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL
MiniMax M2.5MongoDB alternatives: Apache Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Neo4j
GPT-6 LunaMongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB, Couchbase
Muse Glimmer 30BMongoDB alternatives: Amazon DynamoDB

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Level: the same share of first choices.
Redis0%#5 of 12
Azure Cosmos DB0%#9 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
Redis2%#4 of 14
Azure Cosmos DB2%#6 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Azure Cosmos DB leads by ten points.
Azure Cosmos DB12%#3 of 14
Redis2%#8 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Redis

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Avoid Redis as a sole data store for critical financial data.” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Redis as the only copy of important data — Don't assume data is durable just because it's in a database.” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“Redis is rarely used as a *primary* database for storage due to cost constraints and lack of durability” Qwen 3.7 Flash · direct prompt · soft negative
“Redis for a key-value database” GLM 4.7 FlashX · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For caching, real-time, or session store: Redis (via ElastiCache or Redis Cloud) is almost always the right answer.” MiniMax M2.5 · scale prompt · alternative
“In-Memory / Fast Key-Value | Redis Enterprise, Dragonfly | Caching, session stores, real-time leaderboards.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · alternative

What the models said about Azure Cosmos DB

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Avoid managed enterprise tiers (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, etc.)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · hard negative
“over managed cloud services like MongoDB Atlas, DynamoDB, or Cosmos DB — the latter can incur unexpected costs” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · soft negative
“Proprietary APIs (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB) make migration difficult.” MiniMax M2.5 · scale prompt · soft negative
“lean toward a managed, cloud-specific solution (like DynamoDB or Cosmos DB)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose it when Microsoft Azure, globally distributed deployment, or multi-region consistency options are central requirements.” Perplexity Sonar · direct prompt · alternative
“Cloud-Native / Managed Key-Value | AWS DynamoDB, Azure Cosmos DB | Zero-maintenance, seamless cloud integration” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · alternative
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.