memtier_benchmark: A High-Throughput Benchmarking Tool for Redis & Memcached
Benchmarking is the practice of measuring the performance of a system to identify its limits. Benchmarking is an integral part of our service’s development process and we use it both for...
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Jun. 27, 2013
Benchmark: Shared vs. Dedicated Redis Instances
Eli kenn Chris Laskey matteo on the Redis group The Theory The Proof here memtier_benchmark -s <host> -p <port> -P redis -t 4 -n 10000 –ratio 1:1 -c 25 -x 10 -d 100 –key-pattern S...
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Jan. 17, 2013
Enhancing Redis Slow Log
Redis Slow Log is one of the best tools for debugging and tracing your Redis database, especially if you experience high latency and high CPU usage with Redis operations. This online dis...
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Nov. 15, 2012
Benchmarking the new AWS M3 instances with Redis
Two weeks ago, Amazon launched its next generation of standard instances (M3 instances), adding twice the computational capability/cores while providing customers with the same balanced ...
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Nov. 09, 2012
Six Things to Consider When Using Redis on Heroku
Earlier this week, Flights With Friends wrote this post evaluating alternatives for using Redis on Heroku. Even though we were not selected as their favorite choice, we think they did a ...
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Oct. 24, 2012
Testing Fork Time on AWS/Xen Infrastructure
As a provider of the Redis Cloud, we’re always testing out different configurations and options for Redis and AWS to help the Redis community achieve the best possible performance. This ...
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Oct. 15, 2012
Does Amazon EBS affect Redis performance?
As you may know, Running Redis with persistence storage on AWS has been a challenge for users. Local storage lacks data durability, and standard EBS is perceived to be slow and unpredict...
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Oct. 04, 2012
Is Amazon PIOPS Really Better than Standard EBS?
UPDATE: read our followup post Take #2 – Is Amazon SSD PIOPS Really Better? Two months ago, Amazon launched its EBS Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) for running high performance databases in th...
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Sep. 27, 2012
It’s True: Even Modest Datasets Can Enjoy the Speediest Performance
Those of us who use them know that Redis and Memcached were designed from the ground-up to achieve the highest throughput and the lowest latency for applications, and they are in fact th...
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Jul. 02, 2012
AWS Outages and In-Memory Datastores
For the second time during June 2012, the AWS us-east-1 region failed, this time due to a power outage caused by extreme weather conditions, according to Amazon. For those of you who use...