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Big Data Architect???s Handbook

You're reading from   Big Data Architect???s Handbook A guide to building proficiency in tools and systems used by leading big data experts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835824
Length 486 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Syed Muhammad Fahad Akhtar Syed Muhammad Fahad Akhtar
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Why Big Data? FREE CHAPTER 2. Big Data Environment Setup 3. Hadoop Ecosystem 4. NoSQL Database 5. Off-the-Shelf Commercial Tools 6. Containerization 7. Network Infrastructure 8. Cloud Infrastructure 9. Security and Monitoring 10. Frontend Architecture 11. Backend Architecture 12. Machine Learning 13. Artificial Intelligence 14. Elasticsearch 15. Structured Data 16. Unstructured Data 17. Data Visualization 18. Financial Trading System 19. Retail Recommendation System 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Redis

Redis is an in-memory data structure store, released under open source BSD license. It is also referred to as Remote (Re) Dictionary (di) Server (s). It works on the principle of Key Value pair. Redis supports many different types of datasets such as lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, and so on.

It's in memory data that can also be made persisted on disk. It means that if, because of any reason, a Redis instance got rebooted, or if after recovering from a failure it comes back online, then it will restore all of its data from the disk and place it in memory as if nothing happened. This is what makes Redis utilized as a database.

It is super fast in performance because it runs in memory, due to which many people are using Redis for cache purpose in order to increase performance of their applications.

Redis has a publisher and subscriber module, which is also...

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