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Understanding Redis: The In-Memory Data Platform for Modern Apps By a developer / solution architect perspective 1. Introduction In today’s world of high-scale web applications, low-latency microservices and real-time analytics, the demands on data stores are steadily increasing. Traditional relational databases often struggle when you need ultra-fast lookups, high throughput and flexible data structures. This is where systems like Redis shine. Redis is an open-source, in-memory key-value store that goes beyond simple caching: it offers rich data structures, persistence options, clustering, replication, and a wide variety of use-cases that make it a very attractive component for building modern architectures. According to various sources: ...

Understanding DataStore Solutions: Choosing the Right Database for the Right Context Data is the backbone of modern IT systems. Whether we’re building transactional systems, analytics platforms, or AI pipelines, how we store, retrieve, and manage data determines scalability, performance, and reliability. However, not all data is equal — and neither are databases. Over the past 40 years, the industry has evolved from relational databases (RDBMS) to a vast ecosystem of specialised solutions: key-value stores, column-family systems, document databases, graph stores, and time-series databases. ...