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Redis  is used for a part of a booking engine for travel, specifically for the front part to get some sessions and information about the sessions. If a customer or user is using the sites in different parts, we use Redis  to get this information in cache.

The best features of Redis, from my personal perspective, are the performance, which is very quick, and it's very simple to implement.

Since I started using Redis, I feel that the product is saving me some performance tuning time. It's very easy, I have few parameters to tune, and it seems to have performance without a lot of working on the performance, compared to Cassandra , where you have to configure the memory and many other settings.

The integration capability of Redis is excellent.

Redis is very affordable because it's free.

The disadvantage of Redis is that it's a little bit hard to have too many clusters or too many nodes and create the clusters. The sync between the nodes is easier to implement with Couchbase , for example, and this is the only problem, the only disadvantage for me.

I started using Redis this year.

The stability of Redis rates nine out of ten, with one being not stable and ten being very stable.

The scalability of Redis rates eight out of ten, with one being not scalable and ten being very scalable.

Technical support rates at three out of ten.

Neutral

We started using Redis this year when we switched from Couchbase  at the beginning of the year.

I have decommissioned Couchbase, which was not my database but my customer's database. They decommissioned it this year and chose Redis for the cache data parts, so I'm not using Couchbase anymore.

We use community support and we don't have a provider for the support, but to be honest, we don't need support. From the time we implemented, I hope it will continue this way.

I see about 40% savings since using Redis.

In my projects, we use documents basically, so all the NoSQL databases can be mapped with an API to have a kind of independence from Redis and any tool. If tomorrow we want to move from Redis to something better, we are independent from that.

If Redis has questions or comments related to my review, it's possible for them to reach me via email to clarify something.

I am interested in being a reference for Redis.

On a scale of 1-10, I rate Redis a 10.

On-premises

What do you like best about the product?

The each entry of Redis cashes to maintain ttl for long time as per our request

What do you dislike about the product?

The maintenance window which was managed by Redis team

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Redis Cloud is solving several critical problems that developers and businesses face when managing high-performance, real-time applications.

We use Redis  for several purposes, including ranking, counting, saving, sharing, caching, and setting time-to-live notifications. These functionalities are employed across various AI projects and in data processing tools, where Redis  helps with the ongoing data pipeline process.

Redis has multiple valuable features such as being a free and reliable open-source tool. It functions similarly to a foundational building block in a larger system, enabling native integration and high functionality in core data processes. Despite its limitations, Redis provides valuable performance enhancement through system fine-tuning and multi-thread handling.

There are a few areas where Redis could improve. The pub-sub capabilities could be optimized to handle network sessions better, as there are challenges with maintaining sessions between clients and systems. Data persistence and recovery face issues with compatibility across major versions, making upgrades possible but downgrades not active. There's a need for better migration tools to support data movements in a hybrid environment. Concerns exist about licensing and community engagement due to changes in Redis and its forks.

I have been working with Redis for maybe ten years.

We encountered several challenges during the deployment process. Redis required a comprehensive setup process, with attention to hosting parameters, environment preparation, and network rules configuration. It is particularly complex in high-performance scalability contexts, taking us around one week to deploy initially.

Redis is fairly stable, although improvements are needed concerning user load and direct answering time, which sometimes results in downtime on the user side.

Redis is somewhat limited in scalability, rating around four or five. Data migration and changes to application-side configurations are challenging due to the lack of automatic migration tools in a non-clustered legacy system.

We have been using Redis since before I joined the company, so I am unaware of any previous solutions.

The initial setup of Redis was difficult, with a rating of two or three out of ten. A deep understanding of Redis’s core and high technical knowledge was required, making the process lengthy and complex.

Our implementation was handled internally by a small team. Typically, deploying Redis requires participation from around two or three people.

Since we use an open-source version of Redis, we do not experience any setup costs or licensing expenses. The solution is integrated and utilized internally without financial investment.

We did not evaluate other solutions before selecting Redis, as it was already decided by the time I joined the company.

I rate Redis seven out of ten overall. While it's a powerful open-source tool, it has areas needing improvement in terms of scalability and certain functionalities. Despite this, the tool provides reliability for our needs. I recommend considering these aspects before adopting Redis for large-scale operations, especially if high technical competencies are needed.

Hybrid Cloud

I use Redis  as a tool in building projects, specifically for in-memory caching. My backend API uses Redis  to cache information retrieved from the database.

Redis acts as an in-memory search tool that improves the speed of operations. By making operations faster, Redis allows for quicker data retrieval and enhances the performance of applications.

Redis could be improved by introducing a GUI to display key-value pair database information, as it is currently a CLI tool with no visual representation. 

Additionally, better documentation is needed to set up a secure Redis server with user authentication, as there are gaps and issues in this area.

I have been using Redis for two to three projects recently, with a total experience of about five to six years.

Redis is quite mature and stable, and I haven't encountered any stability issues.

Redis does not require scaling. It can be a central in-memory store for all scalable units of an application, and it is not necessary to have a duplicate copy of Redis.

The setup is quite easy; I would rate it as eight out of ten. However, there might be some difficulties related to secure servers.

Redis is a free tool available for on-premises installations. There's no cost associated with it as I haven't used any cloud services.

Redis is a nice choice for building applications that require high turnaround times for user requests. It reduces turnaround time by building a cache solution based on Redis. 

I rate it as eight out of ten.

I use Redis  as a cache to store user sessions with login details and also some current status of the devices.

The performance of Redis  is very fast. Its deployment is pretty easy when using it on ElasticCache, and I did not need to worry about scalability on AWS . It's pretty scalable and stable.

For the PubSub feature, we had to create our own tools to monitor the events.

I have been using Redis for about six years.

The ElasticCache is pretty stable.

I did not need to worry about it on AWS , so it's pretty scalable.

I have never contacted the Redis support team.

Positive

I would probably advise learning how to use command-line tools.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

Public Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)