How to use Redis Cluster for caching

• redis-cluster-demo

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  Redis Cluster with multiple shards and replicas using Docker for development

The entire setup is ready for you in this Github repository here, so you don't have to worry about creating anything from scratch. You can clone it and give it a spin while we will be walking through the files from this repo along the rest of this blogpost.

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  Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch

  

Redis is a key-value store. In rough terms, it works just like a database, but it keeps its data in memory, which means that reads and writes are orders of magnitude faster compared to relational databases like PostgreSQL. It is important to mention that Redis does not replace a relational database. It has its own use-cases and we will explore some of them in this post.

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• Redis

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  🚀 A robust, performance-focused, and full-featured Redis client for Node.js.

  

To connect to Redis from your application, you will need a library that can perform that for you (Otherwise you have to reinvent the wheel). While I've been using IORedis for a nodeJS application in this demo, if you have been using a different language, you will have to look for different connectors like Lettuce for Java or perhaps go-redis for Go.

• Redis

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  Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

  

For more information about Redis, have a look at their website here. There you find good documentation and how to install it on your machine. However, we will be building a demo during this post and we will use an interesting setup using Docker and docker-compose that will spin up and configure the entire Redis cluster for you. The only thing you need available is Docker.

• Docker Compose

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  Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

  

For more information about Redis, have a look at their website here. There you find good documentation and how to install it on your machine. However, we will be building a demo during this post and we will use an interesting setup using Docker and docker-compose that will spin up and configure the entire Redis cluster for you. The only thing you need available is Docker.

• Redis

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  Redis Go client

  

To connect to Redis from your application, you will need a library that can perform that for you (Otherwise you have to reinvent the wheel). While I've been using IORedis for a nodeJS application in this demo, if you have been using a different language, you will have to look for different connectors like Lettuce for Java or perhaps go-redis for Go.

• redis-commander

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  Redis management tool written in node.js

Creates a container with the Redis Commander UI which is a nice Web UI for browsing what is stored in our Redis Cluster

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