Beginning Spring Data: Data Access and Persistence for Spring Framework 6 and Boot 3

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A. SaccoBeginning Spring Datahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8764-4_7

7. Redis: Key/Value Database

Andres Sacco¹  

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Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Sometimes, you need to persist complex objects in a database and/or for a long period of time. Under these circumstances, the key/value store acts more or less as the Map<K,V> class, wherein you need a key to obtain the values, but the key doesn’t need to be a string. It can be another type, and the value can be a simple string or a complex object.

Redis ¹ or Memcached² are examples of this type of database, which you can use with another module of Spring Boot, such as a cache mechanism.

The main difference ...