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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

Installing the Redis Stack client libraries

Redis Stack is based on Redis, which means it uses the same protocol, REdis Serialization Protocol (RESP). Therefore, all the Redis client libraries available are also valid for Redis Stack.

Here is a list of the supported client libraries:

  • jedis: The Java client library supported by Redis and its community
  • node-redis: The JavaScript client library supported by Redis and its community
  • redis-py: The Python client library supported by Redis and its community
  • go-redis: The Golang client library supported by Redis and its community
  • NRedisStack: The C#/.NET client library supported by Redis and its community

In this section, we will see how to import those libraries into your code.

Java client library

To use the jedis library, it has to be imported and declared as a dependency in your code.

For Maven-based projects, you can use the following code snippet:

<dependency>
    ...