Item: Redis™*
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Redis is used as our primary cache for our application to help reduce response time and improve user experience. By caching read intensive data in Redis, this also helps to reduce load on our database.

Pros and Cons

Great performance for reading data
Easy to set up and work with
Great support for many different types of data structure

Lacking monitoring and administration tools
System resource consumption as you scale up

Return on Investment

Significantly improved response time of our application
Greatly improved user experience by making the application more responsive
Reduce cost on database systems

Key Insights

Do you think Redis™* delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Redis™*'s feature set?

Yes

Did Redis™* live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Redis™* go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Redis™* again?

Yes

Other Software Used

IBM Cloud Certificate Manager, IBM Cloud Object Storage

Usability

Very easy to set up. My team got everything up and running in a matter of hours, and was able to start focusing developing our application right away.

Support Rating

There are tons of documentation from both Redis themselves as well as online communities. Many cloud vendors such as IBM Cloud also have expertise in-house to provide support.

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect solution for caching needs. If you have a bottleneck due to frequent data access to your database, then Redis can really help you by diverting those traffic away from your database. Its key/value pair structure also makes data lookup very efficient, providing excellent performance.

Redis is THE solution to all your caching problems

Overall Satisfaction with Redis