We run a farm of Redis instances for storing real time analytics. Because Redis stores objects in memory, it happens to be an extremely fast way to retrieve data; thus, most of our charts and graphs ...

The past few months, I've been covering non-relational databases, sometimes known as NoSQL databases. To hard-core NoSQL proponents, relational databases are no longer the be-all and end-all of data ...

Most applications need some form of persistence—a way to store the data outside the application for safekeeping. The most basic way is to write data to the file system, but that can quickly become a ...