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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)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Redis Stack
6
Part 2: Data Modeling
11
Part 3: From Development to Production

Connecting to the Redis Stack database

When you first launch RedisInsight, you’ll be greeted by the initial application screen, represented as follows:

Figure 10.1 – RedisInsight welcome screen

Figure 10.1 – RedisInsight welcome screen

The application first prompts you to establish a connection with a Redis database. Start this process by clicking on the ADD REDIS DATABASE button.

Connecting to a Redis database can be achieved in multiple ways. You can manually input the connection parameters, such as the IP address, port number, username, and password. Alternatively, you can utilize the auto-discovery feature offered by the Sentinel protocol or use the features provided by Redis Cloud and Redis Enterprise that you will learn about later in this chapter.

Let’s begin with the manual connection approach. You’ll need to enter the following:

  • Host: The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the IP address of your database endpoint
  • Port: The port to which...