Category: Redis

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Ben Mansheim. “Open source” carries a lot of meaning in the world of technology these days. Twenty years after the term was coined, open source projects harness the power of voluntary contributors to produce and support software that is quickly growing in its impact on every industry, in every location. At its core, open source merely means that a product ships with the code that was written to produce it. The ability to access this source code creates the potential for modification and repackaging that is governed by a variety of open source licenses. It also ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. We are incredibly excited to announce the preview of a jointly developed solution between Redis Labs and Pivotal, which will deliver easy integration of Redis Enterprise as a native service on PKS. Together, this solution gives developers instant, self-service access to a cloud-native, stateful data service that is portable, operationally simple, and brings speed and simplicity to accelerate application development. But first, let’s take a look back at how we got here, and why we’re thrilled to launch this new solution. Why Redis in Containers? For years, Redis has been one of the most ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. Background With version 4.0, Redis exposed a new modules API that allows programmers to extend the database’s capabilities via new commands and data types. RediSearch uses this to allow full-text search of data stored in Redis. The data is saved inside Redis as a hash (a core Redis data type), and each data record is called a document. The document’s data is also indexed inside RediSearch’s internal data structures. It is possible to tell RediSearch not to store the data inside a hash, in which case the document will only be indexed inside RediSearch’s ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. Internet of Things (IoT) solutions present a unique challenge for any database. They produce increasingly large and fast data from a very broad spectrum of IoT devices, while requiring near-instant response times. Given this, the solution’s data processing and analysis must increasingly be handled at the network edge, as close as possible to the sensors, actuators and other IoT devices. We no longer have the luxury of being able to crunch IoT data in a cloud environment, where there is seemingly limitless compute and storage resources, because the latency would be unacceptable. Thankfully, there ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. Digital transformation is now a strategic imperative for companies across all industries. As a result, organizations are modernizing their core infrastructures, exploiting cloud capabilities and adopting next-gen architectures to drive new ways of developing, delivering and integrating applications. In this era of transformation, applications have to be developed, tested and released more quickly and methodologies such as agile and DevOps break down the size of the code delivered into manageable chunks. Consequently, microservices designs, container technologies, and orchestration (i.e. Kubernetes) are leading the charge. With that in mind, Redis Labs and Red Hat announced ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. Last week, Redis reached a major milestone with the release of 5.0, which includes a variety of advancements and improvements. The big story here is the introduction of Streams as part of the release. Streams is the first entirely new data structure in Redis since HyperLogLog was introduced as part of 2.8.9 back in April 2014 (over four years ago)! Streams So what is Redis Streams, you may ask? A Redis Stream is a log-like data structure that allows you to store multiple fields and string values with an automatic, time-based sequence at a ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. Digital transformation is now a strategic imperative for companies across all industries. As a result, organizations are modernizing their core infrastructures, exploiting cloud capabilities and adopting next-gen architectures to drive new ways of developing, delivering and integrating applications. In this era of transformation, applications have to be developed, tested and released more quickly and methodologies such as agile and DevOps break down the size of the code delivered into manageable chunks. Consequently, microservices designs, container technologies, and orchestration (i.e. Kubernetes) are leading the charge. With that in mind, Redis Labs and Red Hat announced ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. On Oct. 16, Malwarebytes’ Darren Chinen will join Redis Labs for a webinar titled “Malwarebytes Transforms Vulnerability Telemetry with Redis Enterprise.” Malwarebytes is a security software provider that believes ‘everyone has a fundamental right to malware-free existence’. In order to proactively protect their users from malware intrusion and other types of security vulnerabilities, Malwarebytes use innovative techniques to collect information about malware and threats from around the globe. But how did Malwarebytes diversify the range of services it provides? One part of the answer lies with Redis Labs. Using Redis Enterprise’s various capabilities, Malwarebytes ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Dave Provenza. One of the things that’s so great about Redis is how well it can complement and extend other databases in your ecosystem. While replacing legacy backend databases with newer ones is often seen as expensive and risky, they don’t easily scale in the linear fashion required for users’ ‘instant experience’ expectations. Some of the things that make it difficult to accommodate modern application needs using a traditional MySQL architecture are: Read/write speeds of traditional databases are not good enough for use cases such as session stores. Introducing new tables or modifying an existing schema ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Roshan Kumar. Redis Enterprise as an active-active database is ideal for geo-distributed apps. Its architecture is based on breakthrough academic research surrounding conflict-free replicated data types (CRDT). This approach offers many advantages over other active-active databases, including: Local latency for read and write operations, Built-in conflict resolution for simple and complex data types, Cross-region failover, and Streamlined implementation of use cases like leaderboards, distributed caching, shared sessions, multi-user metering and many more. Recently, we published a tutorial on how to develop apps using active-active Redis Enterprise.  In order to simulate the production setup, developers or testers ... Read More