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Redis is a data store – like a database, but one that stores data primarily in-memory. This makes it much faster than traditional databases where data is stored in disks. Because of this speed, Redis is often used as a caching tool.
It is an open source key-value data store that can store data in any data type, as it uses a key-value pair system to store data. This is also unlike traditional databases that use documents or rows and most commonly used as a primary database, cache, message broker, and queue.
Redis cache delivers sub-millisecond response times, enabling fast and powerful real-time applications in industries such as gaming, fintech, ad-tech, social media, healthcare, and IoT.
It has the ability to write data to disk for persistence. You can configure Redis to persist data either periodically or after every command you issue. When Redis isn't configured to persist data, it is very volatile, and a system crash would result in a loss of data.
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