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Date Published
Author
Yoav Steinberg
Word count
667
Language
English
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None

Summary

The process of comparing two versions of a database is used for testing, development, application updates, and new releases, providing advantages such as ensuring databases are fully synced, verifying backup restoration, and supporting master-slave replication. Redis uses this comparison to validate its replication mechanism between different versions and continuously validates synchronizations across cloud zones and regions for customers with managed databases. Initially, Redis RDB Tools was used, but it had drawbacks, including performance issues when dealing with large datasets. A script was written using Python's multiprocessing library to overcome these issues by parallelizing comparisons, printing discrepancies, and allowing improvements such as detailed output and expiration value comparison. This tool is suitable for constant data or real-time changes, but may not be ideal for altered data during the comparison process.