Ringing in the New Year with a New Office in London
On New Year’s Eve, I was lucky enough to ring in 2017 from the top of Tower 42, one of the best spots in London to watch the city’s famed fireworks show. Even more exciting was the f...
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DEC.14.2016
The Results Are In – Redis Usage Survey 2016!
Over Oct and Nov, Redis conducted two surveys on Redis usage. One survey was of Redis customers, conducted by TechValidate, who provides third-party validation of the results. A second s...
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DEC.13.2016
Redis Labs’ Customers Award Accolades!
Over October and November Redis conducted two surveys on Redis usage. One of the surveys was of Redis customers, conducted by TechValidate, who provides third party validation of the res...
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DEC.7.2016
First-Ever Redis Modules Hackathon
Every day is a special day, but last Friday was a really special day because of the release of the first release candidate for Redis v4. The new version packs a lot of new stuff, althoug...
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NOV.9.2016
Machine Learning on Steroids with the New Redis-ML Module
Redis’ in-memory architecture is well known. When you need “fast at high throughput,” Redis is the obvious choice. Redis is also well known as a “structure store.” While other databas...
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NOV.1.2016
Strength in Numbers: Delivering a High Value Ecosystem to our Customers
Consumers today expect – actually demand – information and services in near real time, at their fingertips. We have become a smartphone society. Get a ride, find a last minute hotel, boo...
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OCT.5.2016
Adding a Search Engine to Redis: Adventures in Module-Land
TL;DR: We’ve utilized the powerful Redis Modules API to build a super-fast and feature-rich search engine inside Redis, from scratch — with its own custom data types and algorithms. E...
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SEP.25.2016
Redis Recommends…
You just finished watching Narcos, season 2 and are about to slip into the post-binge-watching doldrums, when up pops a recommendation from Netflix. “Because you liked Narcos, you shou...
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AUG.28.2016
All Substance and Plenty of Deserved Hype Too
In the past 12 months, Redis has celebrated some impressive market leadership milestones—and we have every reason to believe the party’s just getting started. In July, we announced a ...
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AUG.2.2016
Writing Redis Modules
I’ve been using Redis for about six years now, and over the years I’ve exploited its few data types to do some pretty versatile things such as geographical queries, text search, machin...
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JUN.6.2016
Redis Cloud Integrates With Databricks Spark
Announcements are usually made about past events, while they are happening or about future ones. Today’s announcement of the integration between Databricks’ Spark service and Redis’ Redi...
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APR.25.2016
Money! Money! Money! – How to Save it Good!
Avnet rolls out IBM’s RapidBuild Program with Redis! Redis, as we know, is the world’s most popular in-memory NoSQL and rapidly becoming a default ingredient of most modern application ...
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FEB.10.2016
February 8th outage – post-mortem
On Monday February 8th 2016, at 17:45 UTC, we experienced a major outage in one of the Google Cloud Platform clusters that we employ in providing the Redis Cloud service. By 19:30 UTC we...
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FEB.2.2016
Connecting Spark and Redis: A Detailed Look
The spark-redis package on github is our1 first step in the Spark-Redis journey. Spark has captured the public imagination around the real-time possibilities of big data and we1 hope t...
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JAN.4.2016
ZeroBrane Studio Plugin for Redis Lua Scripts
Just before Christmas, Salvatore Sanfilippo published the first release candidate for Redis v3.2. The upcoming v3.2 delivers new features (such as geo spatial indexes and cluster rebalan...
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DEC.23.2015
3 Critical Points about Security
Over the recent weeks there’s been an increase in the number of reports about NoSQL breaches in general, but also specifically in those relating to Redis. The latter is, in all likelihoo...
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NOV.23.2015
How Redis is Used in Practice
In a recent eye opening survey of 116 redis users, we at Redis were pleasantly surprised by the enormous breadth and depth of Redis usage. 71% of respondents were planning to increase th...
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NOV.2.2015
RLEC 4.2.1 Brings More Granular Controls to High Availability and Performance
Redis Enterprise Cluster (RLEC) has been very successful since its initial release. It serves many customers’ production Redis deployments, enabling them to use the fastest database in t...
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OCT.19.2015
Redis Labs named leader in Gartner’s ODBMs MQ 2015
This is our very first year in Gartner’s ODBMS Magic Quadrant. And we are in the leader’s quadrant! This is a moment of unprecedented recognition for us and we are very proud. This is a...
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OCT.5.2015
Redis Keys in RAM
Adapted from Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham”. Link to text, art copyrighted by Dr. Seuss. I am San. I am San. San I am. That San-I-am! That San-I-am! I do not like that San-I-am! Do y...
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SEP.28.2015
Redis Labs at AWS re:Invent 2015
Jack-o-lanterns, candy corn and haunted houses are the usual causes of excitement in October, but at Redis, we find October even more exciting because we’ll be out and about meeting Redi...