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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have introduced Redis Stack starting from its foundation, the open source Redis server. We have introduced the multi-model approach of Redis Stack with examples, and we have performed simple searches beyond primary key lookup. You have learned about the syntax of the commands to use Redis Stack as a document store capable of storing Hash and JSON documents, and as a time series store, to store data points and search through them. Finally, we explored probabilistic data structures and have shown examples of database programmability.

In Chapter 2, Developing Modern Use Cases with Redis Stack, we will see that Redis Stack can be used in many different scenarios. From an in-memory, real-time cache and session store, to storing leaderboards, or being used as a message broker in a microservice architecture, you will learn that Redis Stack can be a better fit than deploying multiple specialized databases and messaging solutions.