Author: Redis Labs

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Yossi Gottlieb. Redis Core Team member Madelyn Olson Last week we announced a new light-governance model for the open source Redis project, following Salvatore Sanfilippo’s stepping back from being Redis’s BDFL and sole maintainer. We believe that defining the right model for Redis was an important step, but it’s just as important to get the right people on board the new core team. In order to preserve the spirit of Redis and its unique DNA, we wanted the core team to consist of people who are already committed to and involved with the project. To that ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Guy Royse. If you’re a Python developer—and since you’re reading this, you probably are—you’ve almost certainly used Redis and thought it was a great cache. (That was my first impression, too.) And Redis does make a great cache. But it turns out that Redis can solve a lot more problems than just caching. We’re going to explore some of those other uses for Redis and Redis Enterprise. For fun, I’m using the Bigfoot data I used in my blog post on using geospatial data in Redis. And, since we’re Python developers, all of the examples will, ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Kyle Davis. I am personally guilty of describing streams in the wrong way—I’ve defined it as a “series of hashmap-like elements, ordered by time, under a single key.” This is incorrect. The last bit regarding time and key are OK, but the first bit is all wrong.  Let’s take a look at why streams are misunderstood and how they actually behave. We’ll evaluate the good and the bad of this misunderstanding and how it could affect your software. Finally, we’ll examine a few non-obvious patterns that take advantage of the little-known properties of Redis Streams.  Background ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Stévan Le Meur. RedisInsight is an easy and intuitive GUI for Redis, allowing you to oversee all your databases and manage your data, with built-in support for the most popular Redis modules. It provides tools to analyze your database’s memory usage and profile its performance.  With the latest release, RedisInsight 1.6, RedisInsight hits another important milestone with new capabilities and enhancements designed to make your developer experience even more enjoyable. In this blog post, you’ll learn all the details about the latest developments in RedisInsight.  Overview Since the beginning of the year, we have released several ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Ofer Bengal. Today marks another milestone in the history of Redis. After maintaining the open source Redis project for 11 years, Salvatore Sanfilippo (a.k.a. antirez) has decided to take a step back.  We certainly understand Salvatore’s rationale—single-handedly overseeing an open source project of this scale for more than a decade is a huge task. And while no transition of this size is ever stress free, with the release of Redis 6 and a pair homegrown technical leaders from within the Redis community ready to step up (meet Yossi Gottlieb and Oran Agra), we’re all confident that ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Yossi Gottlieb. Today Salvatore Sanfilippo (a.k.a. antirez) announced that he’s stepping back from being the maintainer of the Redis project. We are honored and humbled that he requested us to succeed him as Redis project leads. With this change, we are excited to offer a new “community-driven” governing structure. Let’s look inside this new approach and see how we arrived at this decision.  A big deal for Salvatore, for Redis, and for us In the 11 years since Salvatore created Redis, it has become extremely popular and a standard tool in practically every modern application stack ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Drew Kreiger. The results are in! For the Redis Beyond Cache Hackathon, we challenged participants to build applications that use Redis modules like RedisGears, RedisAI, RediSearch, RedisGraph, RedisTimeSeries, RedisJSON and RedisBloom, as well as Redis event-driven capabilities like Redis Streams, Redis for Task Queues, and Pub/Sub. After more than 320 participants submitted 48 entries in our first online hackathon—of which 26 met our strict criteria—we held the first round of voting on DevPost, at which point five applications moved on to the final round. From June 11–18, we collected more than 2,600 votes, 640 likes, and ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Alex Milowski. With the latest release of Redis Enterprise 6.0.6, our Kubernetes operator includes a new database controller that provides the ability to create databases via custom resources. This mechanism enables database configurations to be packaged in a familiar YAML format alongside other application workloads. This also enables continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes like GitOps for code-driven Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments. A database is described via a custom resource containing the minimal necessary requirements and then is created within a namespace by applying that resource to the namespace. For example, a small test database can ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Alex Milowski. Kineviz is a software developer and consultancy focused on visual analytics. Its GraphXR platform provides a unified visual environment for analysts, business users, and investigators to work with big, connected, and high-dimensional data. GraphXR supports a wide range of applications including law enforcement, medical research, and business intelligence, accelerating time to insight and enabling needle-in-haystack discoveries that evade traditional analytic workflow. RedisGraph has been integrated into GraphXR so that it can read and write graphs. Kineviz has prepared a video demonstration of GraphXR, showing how it can read in an Open Biological and Biomedical ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Yossi Gottlieb. RedisRaft is a new Redis module that makes it possible to operate a number of Redis servers as a single fault-tolerant, strongly consistent cluster. As its name suggests, it is based on the Raft consensus algorithm and an open-source C library that implements it. RedisRaft brings a new strong-consistency with strict serialization deployment option to Redis and the Redis ecosystem. The new module makes it possible to use Redis along with Redis’ existing clients, libraries, and data types in beyond-cache scenarios requiring a high level of reliability and consistency. RedisRaft’s beginnings RedisRaft started as an ... Read More