Redis Cloud vs. Redis Software

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Redis Cloud
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Redis Labs in Mountain View, California offers Redis Enterperise Cloud, available on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, delivered as a service and boasting maximal uptime, easy migration with on-prem deployments of Redis, designed to enable users to run any query, simple or complex, at sub-millisecond performance at virtually infinite scale without worrying about operational complexity or service availability. *Redis is a trademark of Redis Ltd. Any rights therein are reserved to Redis…N/A
Redis Software
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Redis is an open source in-memory data structure server and NoSQL database.N/A
Pricing
Redis CloudRedis Software
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Redis CloudRedis Software
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Redis CloudRedis Software
Features
Redis CloudRedis Software
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Redis Cloud
8.5
Ratings
2% below category average
Redis Software
-
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Automatic software patching9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
NoSQL Databases
Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Product A and Product B
Redis Cloud
-
Ratings
Redis Software
8.6
Ratings
3% below category average
Performance00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Availability00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Concurrency00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Security00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Scalability00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data model flexibility00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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Redis CloudRedis Software
Small Businesses
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.4 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.4 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.4 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Redis CloudRedis Software
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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8.7
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Usability
-
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9.0
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Support Rating
-
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8.7
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Redis CloudRedis Software
Likelihood to Recommend
Redis Cloud is great for quick and easy development as well as deployment. It's reliable in production and makes a great primary Redis solution.
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Perfect solution for caching needs. If you have a bottleneck due to frequent data access to your database, then Redis can really help you by diverting those traffic away from your database. Its key/value pair structure also makes data lookup very efficient, providing excellent performance.
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Pros
  • Ease of setup and deployment via Heroku
  • Reliability and splicity
  • Fair pricing
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  • Easy for developers to understand. Unlike Riak, which I've used in the past, it's fast without having to worry about eventual consistency.
  • Reliable. With a proper multi-node configuration, it can handle failover instantly.
  • Configurable. We primarily still use Memcache for caching but one of the teams uses Redis for both long-term storage and temporary expiry keys without taking on another external dependency.
  • Fast. We process tens of thousands of RPS and it doesn't skip a beat.
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Cons
  • The only area of improvement I have found is the documentation is sometimes lacking and could be a little more comprehensive.
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  • Redis is super fast but it comes with a cost. Whole dataset resides in RAM. So it can be costly as primary memory is more costly, then secondary ones.
  • Persistence issues: To achieve it, Redis uses a memory dump to create a persistence snapshot, that's cool. But it requires some Linux Kernel tweaking to avoid performance degradation while the Redis server process is forking. This further causes latency.
  • Master-slave structure side effect: Master-slave architecture comes with its own side effects. Please note that there will be only one master with multiple slaves for replication. All writing goes to the master, which creates more load on the master node. So, when the master goes down, the whole architecture does.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We will definitely continue using Redis because: 1. It is free and open source. 2. We already use it in so many applications, it will be hard for us to let go. 3. There isn't another competitive product that we know of that gives a better performance. 4. We never had any major issues with Redis, so no point turning our backs.
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Usability
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It is quite simple to set up for the purpose of managing user sessions in the backend. It can be easily integrated with other products or technologies, such as Spring in Java. If you need to actually display the data stored in Redis in your application this is a bit difficult to understand initially but is possible.
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Support Rating
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The support team has always been excellent in handling our mostly questions, rarely problems. They are responsive, find the solution and get us moving forward again. I have never had to escalate a case with them. They have always solved our problems in a very timely manner. I highly commend the support team.
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Implementation Rating
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Whitelisting of the AWS lambda functions.
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Alternatives Considered
We primarily selected Redis Cloud for 3 reason—it's performance and reliability, the overall low cost, and it can easily be scaled to meet our needs as we grow. More secondary to those reasons were the ease of use and how it could be used within our current technology stack without issue.
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UI isn't that great compared to the other competitors. The management of our memcached cluster was becoming pretty complicated as the application grew in size. Redis is a much better option compared to memcached. Redis is bit unreliable compared to the alternative RabbitMQ especially when it needs to be integrated with Celery.
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Return on Investment
  • Redis Cloud is very affordable and therefore the cost is negligible when compared to the benefits— immediate ROI with very little startup costs.
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  • Existing tools like Redisson that were built over Redis reduced dev time in solving challenging problems, which had a positive impact on ROI.
  • We initially misused Redis for persistent storage which had a negative impact on ROI because we were paying a lot for inactive users.
  • The increased performance we achieved using Redis in areas like locking helped us improve the performance of our system reducing the likelihood of system timeouts.
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ScreenShots

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