# Azure Redis Cache Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Key Value Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/key-value-databases) **Average Rating:** 3.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About Azure Redis Cache Azure Redis Cache is a secure data cache and messaging broker that provides high throughput and low-latency access to data for applications. ## Azure Redis Cache Reviews ### 1. Microsoft Azure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Azure is all-in-one cloud service provider. we can access different services in one place. also fast and cloud-native support.Scalable and durable for its applications. also provides its own IAM features. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Microsoft Azure has some security issues or we can say that vulnerability. Also difficult to manage and need the expertise to handle azure services and platforms. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are different platforms, so Azure brings all the services on one common platform. we is very beneficial to handle or manage the things easily.Also auto scalable will help system HA. ### 2. Mediocre at best **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark L. | Chief Security Officer/VP of Technology/Chief Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Quick to deploy initially with mostly standard Redis features **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Very pricey at $50-100/GB per month or so Complicated tiers with different features, capacities and throughput Low SLA and poor support when things go wrong DevOps required to handle peak loads effectively Middling performance compared to self-hosted As with other Azure products, the API/cli would sometimes fail at creating/updating **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use as a general cache, primarily session cache, but also some use as nHibernate cache. ### 3. Azure Redis Cache is easy to setup and very performant **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** It couldn’t be easier to setup and integrates well within the platform. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** I still think there are more integration points that Microsoft needs to explore (e.g. with Azure Functions) **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** Start simple and always do a PoC. Store small objects only. Remember not everything is serializeable. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Frontend caching and state management ### 4. Slow, unreliable, random restarts **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Philip S. | Tech Lead, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** The built in security that it offers is nice. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Everything else - this is so bad to use that I just booted up a VM and used that instead. Random restarts leading to your working data being lost, performance being up to 100 TIMES slower than if you just hosted it yourself. Unreliable networking - just becomes unreachable for periods of time. Overpriced. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** Don't. If you need to use Redis and you are on azure then boot up a linux VM and run it that way. Do not choose their managed service. If you need to use Redis and you don't have to use azure, don't use azure at all and pick a more reliable cloud hosting provider. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shared working memory set between large distributed applications. ### 5. Easy Redis deployments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nathan G. | Mentor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Really easy to stand up and usage based pricing makes it cheap for most scenarios. Its just plain old redis, but it can be scaled and georedundant without much effort at all from the person configuring and using it. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Nothing really. Its a pretty neat service that just works. If I ahd to pick, the unpredictability of the price of the service from month to month is not my favorite thing, but it often works out to be lower than we budgeted. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** Don't hesitate if you're already in the azure stack. Its a solid service that simplifies the running of redis. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're caching data about our users. We're also using it for service location in a makeshift api gateway. ### 6. Fast Database Supporting Many Data Types **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy S. | Solutions Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** It was very easy to implement and set up on Azure Portal. We use the basic cache mainly for testing and find it very secure and reliable. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** The time it takes to create the Redis Cache is a bit too long. It would also be beneficial if we could override the default SSL ports, which is not an existing feature yet. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** Before purchasing, note that you cannot test both basic and standard cache deployments therefore having to delete them between both cases. Shutting down is not an option either so keep in mind once you pay for it, you cannot shut it down. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this for testing. The pricing is not bad at all and for what it offers, the value is reasonable. We wanted to scale to the Standard tier, but that was not an option available. ### 7. A secure data cache and messaging broker service by Microsoft Azure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** 1: It's cache-aside pattern to load data items into the cache only as needed. 2: It caches user session pretty well and when I integrated it with our testing application, it successfully cached every test user's data. 3: Supports distibuted transactions where in the event of failover, everything is rolled back. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** There is no SLA for the basic tier which forces us to go for standard tier even for our testing applications which adds to the cost. I'd appreciate even if there is 95% SLA in this tier. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** 1: Few operations like using KEYS" command, is expensive and should be avoided by the caching and reporting team. 2: Creating new connections is expensive and increases latency hence won't serve the purpose of Redis cache, so reuse connections. Close old connections in case you are creating new. 3: Use premium tier for production systems (Don't risk with basic/standard tier) **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were usually querying the complete data which added to the load on our database. This was done usually to evaluate the demand for a particular store. Using Redis, we can cache frequently used data and query that, without adding to the load on our database. ### 8. Easy use of Redis as a service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Instantiation of a Redis cluster is a breeze, with just a few clicks. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Logging and metric views can be improved. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love to use Azure Redis to easily provision and tear down Redis clusters for development and innovation efforts internally. ### 9. Redis Cache is a quality product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tessa W. | Outreach Coordinator and Social Media Manager, Non-Profit Organization Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Azure is very dependable, it is decently easy to use, and has good support for when you run into problems. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** It can be a time-consuming product to implement **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** Using ARC can and should be pretty straighforward. Be sure to investigate all of the new features to make the very most of the system. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic data storage and access for our database. The newer additions of the program were even better. ### 10. Easy, fast and secure work with Azure Redis Cache **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hoai P. | Web Developer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Redis is an open-source in-memory database. Azure Redis Cache provides remote redis in-memory cache services that is fast, safe and secure to implement. Redis supports complex data types, kinds of abstract data structures, such as strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps and spatial indexes. My team use Redis for caching purpose and for storing background and cron jobs. Azure Redis Cache is very fast as compared to traditional databases. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** It is tricky and time taking process to setup redis for production environment and mostly pricing. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** Time, Support and Pricing **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Caching system, Pay as you go. ### 11. ARC Review **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brooke D. | Talent Acquisition Specialist, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Easy ability to learn. Azure Helps Your Application Become More Responsive as User Load Increases. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Slow processing. High Throughput, Low-Latency Data Access To Power Scalable Azure Applications. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure Cache for Redis can also be used as an in-memory data structure store, distributed non-relational database, and message broker. ### 12. Best open source for caching. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Redis supports a number of datatypes (strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets) and it stores data in memory, which makes it very fast. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Redis offers 2 options for persistency: regular snapshotting and append-only files. None of them is as secure as a real transactional server providing redo/undo logging, block checksuming, point-in-time recovery. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to build highly scalable and responsive applications by providing super-fast access to the data. Also very easy to implement. ### 13. Azure Redis Cache **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chelsey R. | Receptionist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Offers a lot of features and is a great option for cloud storage. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** The cost is not down to our liking, but we deal. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Response time in our clients is for sure a big benefit! ### 14. Great in-memory database easy to install in the Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bertrand T. | Directeur Technique des Développements Informatiques, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Easy to install and administrate (Azure Portal) Extremely porwerful distributed DB solution (for cache but not only) **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Network / permission admin in Azure Portal could be improved, not always easy to find what is missing **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is used for distributed in-memory data and also to link our web apps to Elastic stack ### 15. A tool simplified and useful in the marketing setting **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** The integration of azure with other microsoft products literally work hand in hand. It is simple to use and contains a cache of data. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** The fact that you have to have azure to keep your data in the cache or use the data, **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** A bigger reach within the microsoft framework especially since we are targeting corporations ### 16. System **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** It’s a great system no technical issues that I have found through it all. I enjoy it and think it’s easy to use **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** I don’t have anything I really dislike about this system **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits have been easy to use no problems having it put in very user friendly ### 17. Constant issues and no transparency **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Well known name brings confidence to user **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Extremely complicated, too many layers, **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supposed to be solving a structural need but always get notices from it saying we have a redis cache issue with no other explanation and site outages ### 18. Review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonna T. | Engineer Wall Panel Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** The software doesnt cost a lot. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** The software is difficult for beginners. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** My colleauges are using it ### 19. Secure and compatible **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** The built in reliability and flexible scaling it offers. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** The cost of the service is quite expensive comaritively speaking. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving data via memory instead of disk. Much more cost effective in the long term. ### 20. Great cloud service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Luxury Goods & Jewelry | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Offers a wide array of features and is a great option for cloud storage. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** It is a fairly new product but I have yet to experience an inconvenience. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** Keep it up! **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud storage necessities ### 21. Best way for distributing applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** It supports several data types like String, Hash, List,Sets...also it works across network and devices boundaries. This is great for web applications as we are using. **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Sometimes it is slow but can acceptable. **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** It improves our web app performance and also the response time to clients. It integrates in Azure so easy to setup. ### 22. An easy solution for a scalable redis cache in azure cloud **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alon N. | Senior fullstack developer, Information Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Redis Cache?** Easy, setup by cli, persistence available (unlike aws solution), works "out of the box" with redis-cli and different redis api **What do you dislike about Azure Redis Cache?** Still didn't figure out how to add monitoring to it **Recommendations to others considering Azure Redis Cache:** Try to login with redis-cli to the db after setup, and do a read/write. if you get a secondary error, then you bumped into an azure bug, and need to call their support . Looks like this is heading in the right direction, but nor "enterprise ready" yet **What problems is Azure Redis Cache solving and how is that benefiting you?** Shared session cache between different process (behind a load balancer) Cache for various cloud api calls ## Azure Redis Cache Discussions - [How do I Redis cache in Azure?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-redis-cache-in-azure) - [Which of the following would you store in Azure Redis cache?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-the-following-would-you-store-in-azure-redis-cache) - [What is Redis cache used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-redis-cache-used-for) - [What does Azure Redis cache do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-azure-redis-cache-do) - [View Azure Redis Cache pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-redis-cache/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-13+00%3A37%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e92106b7-acd0-4ba7-aeee-fe0376ceced2&secure%5Btoken%5D=432ed13c59f87212290032e4f00fee520f60d9faa706bc4939c845e5c2bc42bb&format=llm_user) ## Azure Redis Cache Features **Management** - Real-Time Analytics - Solution Integration - Infrastructure Compatibility - Monitoring **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Database Monitoring - Anomaly Detection - Network Security **Solution Provision** - System Failover - Pay by Usage - Service Provision **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Database Administration** - Provisioning - Governance - Auditing **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Availability** - Scalability - Backup - Archiving - Indexing **Security** - Data Masking - Authentication And Single Sign-On - Data Anonymization **Security** - Authentication - Encryption **Data Management** - Data Replication - Advanced Data Analytics **Support** - Operating Systems **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Azure Redis Cache Alternatives - [Redis Software](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-software/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (130 reviews) - [MongoDB Atlas](https://www.g2.com/products/mongodb-atlas/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (350 reviews) - [Redis Cloud](https://www.g2.com/products/redis-cloud/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (42 reviews)