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Learning Redis
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Learning Redis

by Vinoo Das
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
6h 57m
English
Packt Publishing
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Persistence handling in Redis

Redis provides a wide range of options for persisting data. These mechanisms help in deciding what kind of persistence model we need for our data, and that solely depends on the kind of data we want to store in Redis. The four options that we have in Redis are as follows:

  • Persisting via the RDB option
  • Persisting via the AOF option
  • Persisting via combination of AOF and RDB option
  • Not persisting at all

Let's run a simple program and see the importance of persistence mechanism, because then only we can appreciate the importance of persistence. Follow the steps and see for yourself how lack of persistence can cause data loss:

  1. Start your Redis server.
  2. Open a Redis client command prompt.
  3. Execute the command SET msg 'temporary value' ...
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ISBN: 9781783980123