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Like many, you might think of Redis as only a cache. That point of view is out ... hosting the session store directly on the web server requires making the user “stick” to the same back ...

So often the choice is made to go with a NoSQL database such as MongoDB or Cassandra as they'll scale across multiple servers much more easily than most SQL ... cache up to date. Redis has the option ...

The technology has risen in popularity owing to its use as a fast caching layer to improve performance of sluggish web applications. But this is an image that Redis Labs co-founder ... The lack of SQL ...

For database professionals, who are accustomed to enterprise DBMS systems such as Oracle and SQL Server, Redis barely seems to be a database at all, and, indeed, Redis is often used more as a cache ...

Versatility has long been key to Redis' success. It's most commonly used as an in-memory cache that sits alongside a transactional database, such as SQL Server, MySQL, or Oracle. It offloads the ...