September 2014 Summaries

The annual Oracle OpenWorld event is taking place next week in San Francisco, attracting attendees interested in data management, particularly with the growing interest in NoSQL technologies. Oracle's recent foray into the NoSQL domain demonstrates a shift towards embracing innovation that addresses business challenges. The Redis team will be at Oracle OpenWorld, offering discussions on integrating Enterprise-class Redis with existing databases to boost performance and scale.

Redsmin is a web-based service offering a GUI for inspecting, monitoring, and reconfiguring Redis data, with features such as slowlog inspection, batch operations, and SSL authentication. It has a free plan with limited usage and plans starting at €5.99/month to lift limitations. Redsmin requires an internet connection but offers excellent support. Another option is Redis Commander, a Node.js web application allowing direct manipulation of all Redis data types, freely available via npm. Redis Desktop Manager is a cross-platform desktop client, freely available under the MIT LGPL license, with unique features such as SSH tunneling for secure connections to remote servers. Induction, a Mac OS X database client, supports multiple databases and has an alpha version available under an open source license. The Redis Browser, delivered as a Ruby gem, is a simple web-based explorer view of your Redis database.

The AWS Summit is taking place in Tel Aviv next week, featuring a repeatable and respected program with relevant information on scaling operations. Redis is sponsoring the event and invites attendees to visit their booth to learn about supercharging apps with blazing fast Redis. The summit offers various sessions, including keynote by Dr. Vogel, as well as informal "Bar Takeover" events that provide an opportunity for networking and socializing. Additionally, a free AWS Partner presentation will be held on September 16th, featuring a customer success story from Glide.me.

The author of the text compared the performance of Aerospike to Redis by running an "unbenchmark" with Redis Cloud software without any optimizations. The unbenchmark was run in a standard service environment on a noisy EC2 network, and it scored over 1.2 million TPS. The author then requested a full-blown benchmark with all optimizations included, which is currently in the backlog. The text also discusses the implementation of sharding in Redis clusters, including client-side, proxy-based solutions, and clustering. It mentions that Redis Cloud uses its own implementation of a Redis cluster, which has been in use in production for over two years, and that users can create sharded databases with a standard policy or a custom policy using regular expression rules. The author invites readers to follow the Redis blog for further announcements and technical details.