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Redis Stack for Application Modernization

By : Luigi Fugaro, Mirko Ortensi
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Book Image

Redis Stack for Application Modernization

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By: Luigi Fugaro, Mirko Ortensi

Overview of this book

In modern applications, efficiency in both operational and analytical aspects is paramount, demanding predictable performance across varied workloads. This book introduces you to Redis Stack, an extension of Redis and guides you through its broad data modeling capabilities. With practical examples of real-time queries and searches, you’ll explore Redis Stack’s new approach to providing a rich data modeling experience all within the same database server. You’ll learn how to model and search your data in the JSON and hash data types and work with features such as vector similarity search, which adds semantic search capabilities to your applications to search for similar texts, images, or audio files. The book also shows you how to use the probabilistic Bloom filters to efficiently resolve recurrent big data problems. As you uncover the strengths of Redis Stack as a data platform, you’ll explore use cases for managing database events and leveraging introduce stream processing features. Finally, you’ll see how Redis Stack seamlessly integrates into microservices architectures, completing the picture. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with best practices for administering and managing the server, ensuring scalability, high availability, data integrity, stored functions, and more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1: Introduction to Redis Stack
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Part 2: Data Modeling
11
Part 3: From Development to Production

Part 1: Introduction to Redis Stack

Redis Stack combines the core features of Redis with its most successful capabilities, offering a comprehensive understanding of Redis fundamentals and advanced functionalities. It distinguishes itself from Redis by its modular architecture, expanding its capabilities to serve as a document store, vector database, and time-series database. Redis Stack is versatile, functioning as an in-memory real-time cache, session store, leaderboard storage, and message broker. Its probabilistic data types enhance problem-solving efficiency, positioning it as a modern alternative to traditional relational databases for various applications.

The installation of Redis Stack is straightforward across popular operating systems such as Linux, macOS, and Windows, with native packages and Docker images available. To support developers, Redis Stack includes client libraries for major programming languages such as Python, Go, C#, Java, and JavaScript, along with the...