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Soham K.

Junior Digital Analyst

Management Consulting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/17/2016

"Using redis to build scalable web applications"

4/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

Extrmely fast for its particular use case. Scales easily. Should be used for everything that it can be used for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

Can only be used for small fast temporary data. Cannot be used for storing long term data, and is limited by the RAM of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redis Software:

Redis is a great simple and open source solution. I implore others to use it, but be aware of what Redis specializes in ,which is fast reliable storage of data that needs to be retrieved fast, and not long term storage of large data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redis Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

Currently building an application which manages lots of users and lots of aggregated data. Used MySQL for both data aggregation and user session storage. It was apparent that user session storage was not fast enough for our business needs. Redis greatly improved the speed and robustness of our application, since the read/write speed was much faster the MySQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/12/2016

"Excellent alternative to traditional databases when performance is necessary"

5/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

Redis is an extremely fast, easy to use, and well documented data store. The best aspect of Redis is its ease of use (installing, configuring, and accessing it is a breeze). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

A downside of Redis is that there is a very large number of commands available to perform all of the different manipulations (almost 200 of them at the time of writing). This allows for great flexibility but requires accessing the documentation very frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redis Software:

Redis is when used for its intended purpose. For relational data where speed is not a key issue, a traditional SQL database is a better option. When speed is an issue and a disk-based database does not cut it, Redis can serve as a great alternative.

One thing to consider with Redis is that since it is a NoSQL data store, and since it does not enforce any schemas at all, your application code will require a lot of extra logic that would typically be abstracted away to SQL queries. You will have to perform a lot of "book keeping" to keep track of set elements, existing keys, etc. in order to use Redis effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redis Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem that Redis solves best over a traditional SQL database is that its in-memory nature makes data entry and retrieval extremely fast. When latency with disk-based databases is an issue, Redis' speed can be used to mitigate this without the need for scaling or adding servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Robinson A.

Jr Javascript Coder

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/23/2016

"A Key-value database with high reliability and scability."

4/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

It can get any simpler than a couple commands to get it up and running. It doesn't matter either you need a database for something as simple as a ToDo implementation or something more complicated as a forum, Redis can do that and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

Being a membased db, it all comes down to physical memory. If you're running in a Low-budget enviroment and a very high traffic towards db data consumption you might encounter a couple issues here and there with Redis, as it can be limited by the hardware or a wrong system configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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L. Preston S.

Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/15/2016

"Redis is easy, and its potential knows no limit."

5/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

I mostly like how there is such a big community around redis. I use redis with ruby on rails, and I just keep coming up with uses for it! All the apis they provide and then are available via the redis-rb gem make accessing redis dead simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

Redis has never disappointed me, so I don't have anything I don't like about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redis Software:

Redis is a dream when you use the redis-rb gem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redis Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm using it for helping with background task running, for confirming emails, for inviting collaborators, and soon for aiding in deploying of my ember front-end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Changlang K.

Software Engineer

Computer Games

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/18/2016

"Redis performces excellently"

4/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

Redis is very friendly to new user, even who even know any data structure can use redis easily. And it's quite fast search a value by given key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

Missing statistic functions, like sum, count, max, min in mysql. Sometimes i just want to find out how many keys starting with "mp", i have to use "keys mp*" to load all such keys. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Abdel K.

Sr. Cloud Engineering Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/10/2016

"Best in memory solution "

5/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

The best feature I like is the ability to do chain slave replication, to alleviate some of the load on the master. Its also very easy to integrate, regardless of the language you choose.

Another very useful feature of Redis is the ability to do set theory computation easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

There is very little to dislike about Redis. The only thing I can complain about is clustering. Its not very easy to setup a cluster but once you get the hang of it, then it becomes a bit easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redis Software:

If your considering a caching solution or some number crunching. Redis is perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redis Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Redis to do a all of our set theory computation on data we retrieve from social media. With the built in sets, it was a perfect off the self solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Henry K.

Senior Software Engineer

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/15/2016

"Excellent tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

Redis is a very reliable in-memory database with persistency. I've had great experiences using it both as a message broker and as a cache database. It is certainly a tool that I'll pick whenever I need cache or memory consistency between multiple microservices or atomic message passing through publish/subscribe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

I don't recall having bad times with redis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redis Software:

It is a very useful tool and I'd always recommend it in first place instead of other options in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redis Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

I've used redis as a cache service, which has been excellent and also as a middleware between microservices, passing messages through publish/subscribe with namespace and wildcards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Josh S.

Sumo Developer

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/16/2015

"Redis scratches a lot of itches"

5/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

The robust data structures that Redis offers are by far my favorite feature. It can be used as a simple key/value store like you would do with Memcached but also allows you to create hash tables to simulate more Mongo-like features as well as lists and sorted sets that can be used for queues, chat systems and leaderboards (basically anything you want sorted). Also, the option to flush to disk and have persistence is pretty awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

You can't really search through keys (there's a debug command for it, but not for production use) or through values. Sometimes you just want to be able to grab all the hashes that have value X and you simply can't without creating additional keys to track the mapping. This is a shortcoming compared to Mongo where you can still pull documents that contain a specific value. Also, the speed to shutdown and startup larger databases is a tad sluggish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redis Software:

I wouldn't recommend it as a drop in replacement for MySQL or anything due to the limitations for searching, but for caching as well as queues and scored data (like game leaderboards) it's the only choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redis Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Redis for a series of things, specifically a chat system and leaderboards for tracking site activity. I have also used Redis a ton in front of MySQL to serve as a more direct index in scenarios where queries are under performing and the tables are so larger (50m+ rows) that trying to reindex means a chunk of downtime. I also use Redis for user sessions. I am also starting to migrate away from Memcached for basic key/value stores in front of MySQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Milad T.

Software Engineer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/15/2016

"Redis - Fast and efficient In-Memory data structure server"

5/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

Redis is a great piece of software. Stability and safety is among my top concerns when it comes to choosing suitable software ro fit my needs. It has a great community and its used in enterprise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

None. I had no problems so far with Redis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redis Software:

Add your own data structures into Redis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redis Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Redis to simulate message passing and mdispatching between many nodes among a cluster of machines. Because of its responsiveness and great networking capabilities ( it uses epoll on linux ), it can easily manage thousands of requests per second for exchanging data between nodes. It is highly optimized and efficient for this purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Timothy S.

Principal Developer Advocate

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/17/2015

"redis for in-memory data access"

4/5

What do you like best about Redis Software?

The ease of setup and usage of redis is amazing. You can just brew install redis or apt-get install or download and be up and running with a single node in minutes.

The community around redis is very strong with lots of support, examples and documentation.

Redis is an excellent database that has a ton of support clients and drivers for NodeJS, Go, Java, Scala and all the languages that we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Redis Software?

Setting up clustering is a bit hard and there's not a lot of documentation on that. The process just changed, so hopefully it will get better. The enterprise version from RedisLabs is a lot easier to use.

I would like if it connected with things like Mesos and kubernetes easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Redis Software:

Make sure you use the latest 64 bit version and if you can use the RedisLabs clustered version. The creator of Redis, Salvatore works for them and it's really solid.

Redis is great for caching and for real-time data access. We use it as an HTTP session cache, HTTP cache, ORM cache, temporary memory and as instead of memcache.

Redis is a great product and works great with Scala, NodeJS and Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Redis Software solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have solved our performance issues by using Redis instead of a RDBMS. Redis is a greatly faster than MYSQL, Postgresql or Oracle for most things we need to do.

Redis is also a great cost saver over commercial cache and in memory solutions as it is free. We just need to pay for our EC2 instances which are fairly small for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.