Record Database Performance With Redis Labs’ Redis on Flash and Intel NVMe-Based SSDs

Redis Labs, Inc., home of Redis, and Intel Corp. announced at the AWS Summit in New York, NY, that they have collaboratively benchmarked a throughput of three million database operations/second at under one millisecond of latency, while generating over 1GB NVMe throughput, on a single server with Redis on Flash and Intel NVMe-based SSDs.

Redis on Flash

“Redis on flash combines the power of Redis with the cost-effective, high-performance of flash memory. This benchmark showcases the high-performance at lower costs achievable with next generation memory technologies and Redis Labs,” said Yiftach Shoolman, co-founder and CTO, Redis Labs. “In a world where extracting insights from data rapidly is increasingly critical, this combination gives modern enterprises a very compelling solution for their mission critical applications.“

Redis on Flash

Redis on Flash allows the company to run optimally with flash memory used as a RAM extender. As Redis deployments expand both in size and use case variety, challenges posed by the cost of memory can be overcome with advanced memory technologies like Intel NVMe flash.

These deliver memory-like performance, at one-tenth the cost of DRAM.

Redis on Flash makes the versatility of Redis cost-effective for  broader set of use cases. Examples include throughput requirements ranging from extremely high to moderately high (millions of operations per second to hundreds of thousands of operations per second) and latency requirements extending from low to moderately low (sub-millisecond to millisecond) or any combination in between.

“Intel’s next-generation memory technology will allow many times the latency improvements seen in these NAND-based tests, which will allow greater scale and consistency, so that data tiers such as what Redis Labs has developed will continue to blur the lines of what non-volatile memory can do for efficient caching and data persistence strategies,” said Frank Ober, architect, data center solution, Intel.

Redis Cloud Private

Redis Cloud Private (RCP) is a fully-managed cloud service for running Redis datasets in AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs). RCP delivers cost-effective, secure, high-performance Redis on dedicated clusters, with the option to allocate use case appropriate datasets between RAM and flash (using high IO/s SSD instances), in a highly-available and scalable manner.

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Download  the Intel benchmark report (registration required)

Redis on Flash is available in Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster (RLEC) and Redis Cloud Private Flash (RCP Flash).