What can Redis do for you?
What can Redis do?
Redis is an open source, in-memory data structure store.
It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes with radius queries. Redis has different levels of on-disk persistence and a Pub/Sub messaging system.
(redis.io)
Cache
In computing, a cache is a component that stores data so future requests for that data can be served faster
(Wikipedia)
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Caching options
Redis
Memcached
Message broker
Message broker is an intermediary program module which translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the receiver.
(Wikipedia)