Redis

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Polina Soshnin edited this page Jan 27, 2016 · 1 revision

What

Redis is a self described “open source, advanced key-value store”
No schema key value store
quick, in memory store
Redis as like Memcached, but with built-in persistence (snapshotting or journaling to disk) and more datatypes.

Why

Good use cases for using Redis:

Email/SMS subscriptions: Redis has a pub/sub feature. This makes it easy to keep track of who is subscribing/etc to our communications. Socket.io can use Redis to sync pub/sub across multiple servers.
Caching: Redis can be used in the same manner as memcache.
Spam/any real time tracking.