January 14th, 2010
Redis for your slice?
We're happy to announce that we are now working with the author of Redis to allow him to test and optimize his excellent database product for use on our virtual private servers.
Redis is a key-value database that resides in memory, either replicating another database or standing on its own. It's similar to memcached but more versatile and less volatile, since Redis allows values other than strings and can periodically write database changes to disk while maintaining everything in memory for fast access. Redis also supports interfaces for a number of programming and scripting languages, including C, PHP, Python, Javascript and Ruby.
Redis is an exciting piece of software (if you have the memory for it!), and we here at Slicehost are pleased to be able to contribute to its ongoing development.
January 14th, 2010 at 11:45 PM Luke Melia
Nice! Thanks for supporting the development of such a great technology.
January 15th, 2010 at 04:35 PM Dave
Yes… “if you have the memory for it!”.
January 17th, 2010 at 04:35 PM Mir
Looks interesting, but would this be practical for a vps?
January 20th, 2010 at 08:33 PM george
I never got much help from the user group/developers of redis, mongodb’s community is top notch. I develop using mongodb, it would be nice to have that integrate into a slice along w/ redis of course.
June 16th, 2010 at 02:22 PM Eric
I have tried Redis, and you know, I have liked it really much. It’s an amazing software! Thank you Slicehost for supporting such a great software and giving people the opportunity to use it!