Redis Provides Fast Data Ingest, No Heartburn

Imagine visiting an amusement park, consuming large quantities of all four primary amusement park food groups (which are corn dogs, funnel cake, snow cones, and cotton candy of course), and then spinning around wildly on the Tilt-A-Whirl. The volume and variety (and dare we suggest velocity?) of food you’ve just consumed is likely to overwhelm your stomach, causing discomfort and forcing it to slow down and regroup in order to accommodate the day’s indulgences.

But your software stack isn’t allowed the luxury of slowing, not even a fraction of a sub-millisecond; it needs to handle whatever data is thrown at it without breaking a sweat or popping a Tums. Fast data ingest and processing is an increasingly common requirement for big data use cases, and internal stakeholders and customers alike have come to expect (and rely on) the real-time decision making that it enables.

Collecting, storing and processing large volumes of high-variety, high-velocity data is a task that presents several complex design challenges—especially in fields like IoT, e-commerce, security, communications, entertainment, finance, and retail.

And this is where Redis has a real advantage. It tackles these challenges with an ease that is unmatched by other fast data ingest solutions, which tend to be complex and over-engineered for simple requirements.

In fact, in an independent survey of Redis customers conducted by TechValidate, 74% reported using Redis for messaging and data ingest.