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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
6
Part 2: Data Modeling
11
Part 3: From Development to Production

Redis as a primary database

When Redis is deployed in a replicated topology with Sentinel agents or as a Redis cluster, it fulfills the typical requirements of a DBMS in terms of availability and scalability. Redis supports backups and recovery to a consistent state in case of major issues. In terms of hardening, Redis provides user permission management via access-control lists (ACLs), traffic encryption, and additional security features. Tools for benchmarking, monitoring, and auditing a Redis or Redis Stack database are available as well, and together with a rich set of client libraries, the Redis ecosystem integrates with all kinds of software architectures. We’ll discuss the manageability of Redis in scalable and available scenarios in the next chapter and compare the different flavors: open source, Enterprise, and Cloud. In this section, we’ll focus on the discussion around using Redis as an authoritative source of data.

Redis is commonly adopted as a cache to...