Redis – Partitioning Partitioning is the process of splitting your data into multiple Redis instances, so that every instance will only contain a subset of your keys. Benefits of Partitioning It allows for much larger databases, using the sum of the memory of many computers. Without partitioning you are limited to the amount of memory […]

Redis – Pipelining Redis is a TCP server and supports request/response protocol. In Redis, a request is accomplished with the following steps − The client sends a query to the server, and reads from the socket, usually in a blocking way, for the server response. The server processes the command and sends the response back […]

Redis – Client Connection Redis accepts clients’ connections on the configured listening TCP port and on the Unix socket, if enabled. When a new client connection is accepted, the following operations are performed − The client socket is put in non-blocking state since Redis uses multiplexing and non-blocking I/O. The TCP_NODELAY option is set in […]