Performs much better than traditional databases, integrates well and lot of learning resources available
What is our primary use case?
We use it primarily for real-time applications. In our web application, we added a feature where hundreds of people could play a quiz in real time.
Instead of using traditional databases like SQL, we implemented Redis to make everything happen in real time – all those quick calculations, data hashing for easy retrieval, and so on.
It was a live quiz feature, so Redis helped a lot. I also use Redis for caching and similar general use cases.
How has it helped my organization?
It improved the performance. For example, data structures like hashmaps in Redis make it a very fast database – much faster than traditional SQL databases. It can perform at significantly higher speeds. Latencies are very low. Our primary focus wasn't on saving money but on improving performance for that specific feature.
So, performance has been the key improvement. Every calculation happened in real time. It improved the performance 10X.
In our company, we have limited resources, so we can't manage the database ourselves. We use services from Azure for that. So, Redis integrates well with those services.
We use Azure Cache for Redis.
What is most valuable?
It performs much better than traditional databases. Our calculations happen in real-time, which was crucial for that quiz feature.
What needs improvement?
The price could be better.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using it for more than two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It has been a reliable product for us.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's been working very well for us. Since our scale isn't huge, it's able to handle our needs without issues.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I've also worked with PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, and Elasticsearch.
It's tough to find a direct competitor because Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch all serve different purposes. Cassandra excels when you structure tables according to your requirements upfront. It offers fast reads. However, the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) isn't as flexible as SQL – there are no joins, for example. It is a very restricted query language. So, we need to carefully design your database tables with future data needs in mind.
Redis is better tested and is used by large companies. I haven't found a direct alternative to what Redis offers. Plus, there are a lot of support and learning resources available, which help you use Redis efficiently.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's actually quite expensive compared to SQL since Redis uses a system's main RAM, which is costly. And memory can be limited.
We opt for a dedicated server.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. It's been very stable so far and performs well within our system.
I would recommend it, but I would also highlight the cost factor as something to consider.
Offers good stability and information processing is very fast
What is our primary use case?
I have been using a specific infrastructure. We use it primarily for customer service.
What is most valuable?
It makes operations more efficient. The information processing is very fast, and very responsive. It's all about the technology.
What needs improvement?
The only thing is the lack of a GUI application. There was a time when we needed to resolve an issue in production. If we had a GUI, it would have been easier. But no one provided a GUI, or maybe we didn't request it. I'm not sure. We just make use of it.
For how long have I used the solution?
My experience with this product has been very good.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's been very stable. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
What was our ROI?
We saw an ROI. It made the processing of our transactions faster. So there are some details we get, like customer contract details, customer details, customer ID, there are so many details for that. So we get it from Redis, which makes it faster.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate it an eight out of ten.
I would recommend to explore this product as it's gonna make the work easy.
Improves database speed and helps with caching
What is our primary use case?
We use Redis for caching and to improve the speed of the database.
How has it helped my organization?
The product offers fast access to my database.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with the product since 2022.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Since implementing the product, we have experienced stability in our applications.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup took some time as our technical team needed to familiarize themselves with Redis. Once they gained expertise, the deployment process became straightforward and was completed within a month and a half. A seven-member team helped with the deployment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Redis is an open-source product.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the product an eight out of ten.
A simple, powerful, and fast solution that can be used as a main database
What is our primary use case?
Sometimes, Redis is used as a cache and sometimes as the main database.
What is most valuable?
Redis is a simple, powerful, and fast solution.
What needs improvement?
Sometimes, we use Redis as a cluster, and the clusters can sometimes suffer some issues and bring some downtime to your application.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Redis for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Redis a seven or eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
In our team, around 20 to 25 engineers are using the solution.
I rate Redis a nine or ten out of ten for scalability.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support team was quite knowledgeable and fast.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously used other solutions like DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and Postgres for different use cases. We switched to Redis because maintaining the cluster for Elasticsearch was very complex and a lot of work. Also, the other solutions were very, very expensive.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is easy.
What about the implementation team?
Since we're using the AWS self-managed version, Redis can be deployed very fast if you go through the console. If you do an infrastructure, its setup will take longer. But if you just want to play with it and set it up quickly, it can be done in 10 to 15 minutes or less.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution's pricing is good compared to other databases doing the same thing. It might be cheaper to use Redis in some cases and not in others. Redis is not an overpriced solution.
What other advice do I have?
Redis is deployed on-cloud in our organization.
When it started, Redis had a very simple structure, but now it has a lot of powerful data structures. Users should investigate because they can use other things for their data structure. Redis has more new use cases. Users must consider that Redis is single-threaded, which might take a toll on them when they write to Redis. This might be an issue if you need very high throughput with writes.
Overall, I rate Redis a nine out of ten.
So far so good
What do you like best about the product?
I like that we don`t need to take care about the infrastracture. Automatic clustering and failover is a nice feature.
Also we like the out of a box integration with Kafka.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it`s harder for developers and devops to support redis enterprise due to learning curve, as open-source redis has less functionality.
Maybe it would be nice to have more than 3 cloud providers, like DigitalOcean.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We need a high availability in our business, so this is where RE helps us.
Also it`s easy to recover data in case smth went in a wrong diredtion. As I know we use snapshots a lot.
Redis is popular itself, so it`s not a problem to find the right human resources to support and manage it.
Best platform for developer who use Redis
What do you like best about the product?
Operations are too fast.
Queries can be made easily.
Data base monitoring is so easy.
Anyone can use it easily and quickly.
can be used for any type of data.
It's an open source and developed by Redis developers.
Backup functionality is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing as much, because as a developer, not any disliking point.
I used it in one of my NodeJS projects.
Its UI can be improved somewhat comparison to some other apps.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Generate queries and see them easily.
Run queries faster, see all data in one place.
Take backup easily for data.
Used for caching purpose by storing data in redis.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I suggest everyone to use once so that they can know it.
Many of us don't know benifits as we have not used it anytime
Redis Review
What do you like best about the product?
It is a good tool for database management platforms, handle multiple users session, provide object-based information very fast. It is straightforward to install and is a very cost-effective solution. It gives the ability to manage and handle caching requirements and is thus very effective for performance. It can provide outstanding performance and efficiency with large amount of data also. Updates are pushed promptly and have rich community support. Helps business in growth
What do you dislike about the product?
Redis cluster needs to know to clients who manage it. Proper knowledge of topology and overhead configurations is required. Sometimes issue handling failovers inside the cluster due to master/slave node configuration issues. Redis doesn't provide local storage in object forms. Data serialization needs to be addressed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Redis as our data structure repository. It keeps key-value data store. It supports many datatypes, and caching helps the persistence of data. The speed of this system is phenomenal.
Redis Enterprise on multi cloud platform
What do you like best about the product?
the highest levels of availability in geographically distributed environments, effortless scaling to any dataset sizes, and significant cost reduction to enterprise customers
What do you dislike about the product?
It is a bit difficult task to learn how to use Redis from the documentation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Redis supports data structure like Hash, String, Lists, and sets
Redis - Powerful in Memory Data Store.
What do you like best about the product?
Best way to store the data structures as is in the data store. Fast access and various supporting data structure NoSQL DB. It has moved from a simple key-value data store to one of the most powerful in-memory databases. Most cases to use cache still outperform as in-memory DB for other data. Power with the Developer on the prod code. Also growing support with the newer data formats for all kinds of data. With the interest of this concept, I started learning and started implementing on my own project. Highly memory efficient that drive saving the infra cost.
What do you dislike about the product?
Modules are separate and difficult to up and running in the standalone. The Cloud version outperforms the drawback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real-time fast data ingest as well as retrieve as fast as it can be based on the infrastruture.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Best way to start if you are developer aspire to be enterpreneur who is building an application in the cloud. So you can scale easily as you grow.
one of the best caching tool
What do you like best about the product?
Super fast. Reliable. Clustering available and affordable
What do you dislike about the product?
Can get little complex. some sort of learning is required to understand
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Making API faster.
