MySQL is the second famous database in the world according to the DB Engine website behind Oracle. What makes MySQL famous is probably because it is a very fast, reliable and flexible Database Management System....

What is Redis? Redis (which means Remote Dictionary Serve) is an open-source NoSQL database known to be a fast, in-memory key-value data store, cache, message broker, and queue. The project started by Salvatore 'antirez' Sanfilippo,...

Quite recently ProxySQL has changed the way it names new releases. To avoid confusion we’d like to go over it a bit. In the past, we had two branches: 1.4.x and 2.0.x where new features...

Are you a MariaDB database administrator that is facing problems regarding your Galera Cluster implementations? Perhaps you even tried to make it work in harmony with Nextcloud? If you have answered “yes” to any of...

If you Google around, it is trivial to find the comparison between Redis versus Memcached as shown here, here, here and here. In this blog post, we will do a similar comparison between Redis and...

NoSQL ("not only SQL") is an approach to database design that enables the storage and querying of data outside the traditional structures found in relational databases. It was created to primarily deal with unstructured data...

A key-value database is a type of non-relational database that uses a simple key-value method to store data. A key-value database stores data as a collection of key-value pairs in which a key serves as...

When the internet gained popularity and relational databases could not cope with the tremendous variety of data types in the mid-1990s, non-relational databases or commonly referred to as NoSQL was developed and introduced by Carlo...

Redis Overview Redis (which means Remote Dictionary Serve) is an open-source NoSQL database known to be a fast, in-memory key-value data store, cache, message broker, and queue. The project started by Salvatore 'antirez' Sanfilippo, the...

Twitter, GitHub, Pinterest, Snapchat, Craigslist, StackOverflow and Flickr just to name a few are the companies that are adopting Redis either for their storage or as a cache to boost performance. Redis is an in-memory...

Redis is a well-known in-memory datastore, quite commonly used for caching the data from a website or the database. You may think in such use cases backups of the data is not really relevant, but...

By 2025, the world will store approximately 200 zettabytes of data. That data will be stored either in public, private, on-premises or cloud storage, PCs, laptops, smartphones and also Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. On projection, the...