Redis Data Integration release notes 1.6.1 (March 2025)

Installation on Kubernetes with a Helm chart. Improvements for installation on VMs.

This release replaces the 1.6.0 release.

RDI’s mission is to help Redis customers sync Redis Enterprise with live data from their slow disk-based databases to:

• Meet the required speed and scale of read queries and provide an excellent and predictable user experience.
• Save resources and time when building pipelines and coding data transformations.
• Reduce the total cost of ownership by saving money on expensive database read replicas.

RDI keeps the Redis cache up to date with changes in the primary database, using a Change Data Capture (CDC) mechanism. It also lets you transform the data from relational tables into convenient and fast data structures that match your app's requirements. You specify the transformations using a configuration system, so no coding is required.

Headlines

• Fixed missing metrics and incorrect status for SQL Server.
• Improved Redis Insight autocomplete using schema description property.
• Restricted Redis connections to targets and non-Redis connections to sources.
• Enhanced scaffolded config.yaml with examples for each database type.
• VM Installer: Captured output of all sub-processes.
• Improved error message for critical errors when sending commands to Redis cluster fails.
• Fixed issue where pipeline status did not return to streaming after stopping and starting.
• Added RDI API logging, validation examples, and bug fixes.
• Disabled strict parsing of collector application properties to allow overriding.
• Fixed HTTP 500 error in GET /pipelines/sources/{source}/columns when passing tables parameter.
• VM setup: Fixed incorrect output status and incomplete upgrades in upgrade.sh script.
• Ensured collector-api service force upgrades when Operator restarts.
• Corrected typos in CLI option help messages.
• Generated and published API reference page.
• Resolved error in collector-api when Source secret contains special characters.
• Fixed RDI 1.6.0 installation failure for HA due to rdi-operator deployment timeout.
• Added support for downloading Debezium image from a private registry.
• VM Installer now supports Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04.
• Resolved performance degradation in 1.6.0 that caused the initial sync to be 3-5 times slower.

Limitations

RDI can write data to a Redis Active-Active database. However, it doesn't support writing data to two or more Active-Active replicas. Writing data from RDI to several Active-Active replicas could easily harm data integrity as RDI is not synchronous with the source database commits.