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Redis provides a wide variety of tools directed at improving and maintaining efficient in-memory database usage. While its unique data types and commands fine-tune databases to serve app...

Sometimes inspiration strikes and you feel compeled to follow it. That’s exactly what had happened to me when I was reviewing Redis’ documentation repository – while browsing through the...

Last year we open-sourced memtier_benchmark, a high-throughput benchmarking tool for Redis and Memcached resources. At Redis, we use this tool on a daily basis, and those of you who gave...

Redis provides a wide variety of tools directed at improving and maintaining efficient in-memory database usage. While its unique data types and commands fine-tune databases to serve a...

Today I’m proud to present my latest contribution to the open source community – bmemcached-cli. It is a simple Python wrapper around python-binary-memcached that provides an easy way ...

Or: The Bigger They Are, The Harder They F(etch)all While you could consider them a “Rich People Problems,” big databases do present big challenges. Scaling and performance are perhaps ...

The recent Redis’ v2.8.9 was “the strangest beast” in its history of releases. Unlike previous versions, this release solely introduced new Redis functionality rather than defect fixes...

Securing Redis Client and Server with Stunnel What do you do if you want to secure access to your Redis? Plain password authentication (i.e. the AUTH command) only gets you so far and i...

Job scheduler programs have grown to become very popular in today’s web application world. Most commonly used to automatically run asynchronous and heavy jobs, schedulers have been utili...

This week on Tuesday, April 23rd, Amazon cloud’s eu-west-1 data region experienced a service degradation. It was not highly publicized, although some reported on Twitter about AWS’ con...

The process of comparing two versions of a database is a fairly common practice, generally used for testing and development purposes, as well as supporting application updates and new re...

Today we are happy to make two exciting announcements: we’ve made SSL support available for Redsmin and we’re releasing a couple of Redis clients that we’ve patched to support SSL. Since...

Over the last couple of days our team has been hard at work to address the newly-disclosed CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability (a.k.a. Heartbleed). We’ve completed proofing our service against t...

Recently, a known NoSQL vendor announced the addition of in-memory capabilities to its database offering. The decision to take a hybrid approach with their database offering brings up a ...

Two weeks ago the Redis team had exhibited in the 2014 Game Developers Conference. As the name suggests, the conference was packed with game developers and I had great discussions about ...

Thankfully, no humans are enslaved by Redis. Instead, it uses asynchronous replication “for scalability … or simply for data redundancy.” Also, “a [Redis] master can have multiple slav...

Arguably, one of the strongest benefits of the open source movement is that the community can get actively involved in the development of projects. Having access to the source code of an...

You’ve probably already heard about AWS’s outage last Sunday around noon PDT. The thud of that “minor” network-cum-storage issue in one of the busiest data regions of the Amazon forest c...

Everybody knows you should always use protection, or things can get pretty ugly fast. In the Cloud world, this translates to our in-memory datastore’s fault resilience, which effectively...

A little over 18 months ago we took our first baby steps in what has since then proved to be a wild and exciting ride. To the uninitiated outsider, a cloud service provider’s existence m...

Redis’ replication is an indispensable tool – it can be used both to heighten the availability of your Redis setup (you can read more about Redis availability in this post) as well as to...