Category: Redis

Feed: Redis. Author: Steve Naventi. Yiftach Shoolman is the Co-founder and CTO of Redis Labs, the company behind Redis, an open-source in-memory data structure with key-value database that supports different kinds of abstract data structures. It provides real-time data to enable companies to manage, process, analyse, and make predictions. Three weeks ago, Redis Labs raised its Series F round and entered the coveted unicorn club.According to Yiftach, the secret behind the problem-solving capabilities of Redis lies in the fact that it was invented by people who didn’t come from any database background. “Since everyone had different perspectives, we solved the problem ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Pieter Cailliau. RediSearch, a real-time secondary index with full-text search capabilities for Redis, is one of the most mature and feature-rich Redis modules. It is also becoming even more popular every day—in the past few months RediSearch Docker pulls have jumped 500%! That soaring popularity has led customers to come up with a wide variety of interesting use cases ranging from real-time inventory management to ephemeral search. To extend that momentum, we’re now introducing the public preview of RediSearch 2.0, designed to improve the developer experience and be the most scalable version of Redisearch. RediSearch 2.0 supports ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Tugdual Grall. RediSearch 2.0 is now out in public preview! Most of the features in this major new release have been driven by your feedback, with a focus on improving the developer experience and enhanced scalability. But this blog post concentrates on helping you get started using RediSearch 2.0’s new data indexing capabilities and better ways to create an index.  Having a rich query and aggregation engine inside your Redis database opens the door to many new applications that go well beyond caching. You can use Redis as your primary database even when you need to access ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Steve Naventi. 18h | Ronald Hoogland, Head of IT, Gamepoint With the past coronavirus lockdown affecting all aspects of our life from how we worked to how we played, it was no secret that many looked to gaming as an escape. According to Verizon, in the US alone there was an 82% increase in video game usage during lockdown compared to pre-COVID levels, as gamers sought to entertain themselves while confined to their own homes. In the early weeks of the lockdown, this led to some games and gaming platforms smashing their usage records. Counter Strike: Global ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Steve Naventi. Open source database provider Redis Labs continues to expand upon its offerings as it further distances itself from the time when it was largely known as a solid NoSQL cache provider. To that end, Red Labs has recently released RedisRaft, an open source project to help foster additional database replication options. The goal is to better enable end-user organizations to benefit from strong consistency deployments of Redis servers and platforms through the use of RedisRaft. Comparatively, Redis Labs said Raft offers the same high standard of consistency and stability Apache ZooKeeper and Etcd, Redis maintains, ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Steve Naventi. SonyLiv, Freshworks, Vungle, Etermax, and Branch Financial choose Redis Enterprise Cloud on AWS for sub-millisecond performance at infinite scale Mountain View, September 3, 2020—Redis Labs, the home of Redis and provider of Redis Enterprise, today announced it achieved Advanced Technology Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). The company received the designation in part by demonstrating verifiable success with customers, including SonyLiv, Freshworks, Vungle, Etermax, and Branch Financial, deploying Redis Enterprise Cloud on AWS. Customers can choose to deploy Redis Enterprise Cloud as a cost-effective, fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) on AWS ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Mikhail Volkov. Earlier this month, Redis Labs released the new Redis Data Source for Grafana plug-in, which connects the widely used open source application monitoring tool to Redis. To give you an idea of how it all works, let’s take a look at a self-referential example: using the plug-in to see how many times it has been downloaded over time. (The Grafana plug-in repository itself does not provide such statistics out of the box.) Want to learn more? Read Introducing the Redis Data Source Plug-in for Grafana What is the Redis Data Source for Grafana? If you’re ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Preston Reyes. With Redis Enterprise, we’ve been able to improve responsiveness on our website as well as our strategic mobile app, resulting in higher customer satisfaction and additional revenue. Enterprise-grade support as well as seamless integration has allowed us to keep TCO in check. —Dani Mohr, Head of Software Development, kicker Company: kicker Industry: Media The Customer: German football (soccer) publication kicker has been providing premiere football content for more than a hundred years. The Challenge: kicker’s website and mobile counterpart have grown increasingly popular and continue to attract new readership, and the team realized its tech ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Ajeet Raina. Most of the database migration tools available today are offline in nature. They are complex and require manual intervention.  If you want to migrate your data from Amazon ElastiCache to Redis Enterprise Cloud, for example, the usual process is to back up your ElastiCache data to an Amazon S3 bucket and then import your data using the Redis Enterprise Cloud UI. This process can require painful downtime and could result in data loss. Other available techniques include creating point-in-time snapshots of the source Redis server and applying the changes to the destination servers to keep ... Read More

Feed: Redis. Author: Preston Reyes. Redis Enterprise Cloud Ultimate’s performance and failover were second to none. After evaluating, we realized we could use Redis Enterprise Cloud Ultimate beyond caching and as our primary database. — Arjun Yadav, Chief Technical Officer, MyTeam11 Company MyTeam11 Industry Gaming The Customer: MyTeam11 is the new global leader in the market of fantasy sports sites, ensuring that each user gets benefits and rewards at the end of any contest. MyTeam11 is a leading option when it comes to sports like cricket, football (soccer), kabaddi, hockey, basketball, handball, volleyball, rugby, and baseball. The Challenge: With 15 ... Read More