back to article Open-source database outfit Redis Labs grabs $100m funding as it seeks to be about more than just cold, hard cache

Database biz Redis Labs has secured $100m in a funding round that sets its valuation at an estimated $1bn. The company is keen to see its open-source in-memory, key-value store tech move beyond use cases in infrastructure and caching, and be seen as a real-time analytics database for anything from online gaming to credit card …

  1. Robert Grant

    Uh oh. They're calling it a database.

    If latency is important, you should think twice before you use a database other than Redis.

    No wonder the original dev left.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    VMotion

    Hopefully now they got all this extra money they can support VMotion in VMWare instead of having to pin guests to hosts...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: VMotion

      Works fine for us.

  3. StrangerHereMyself Silver badge

    Controversial licensing

    Wasn't it Redis which added their infamous Commons Clause to their so-called open-source license and thereby rendering it non-free as far as the FSF was concerned?

    I'm staying away from Redis if I can. If they keep adding side-letters and by-clauses to their licenses who knows where we'll end up.

  4. cyberdemon Silver badge
    Paris Hilton

    How does redis work if the power goes off?

    Same applies to other "in-memory" "databases".

    Is all the data lost? partially lost? Does it take 100 hours to restore 50% of it from disk/tape? (with the other 50% being out-of-date on the tape and therefore lost) ?

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    2. LeoP

      Re: How does redis work if the power goes off?

      That depends on your config - out of the box you lose the last 2 seconds of changes, but you can chose your sweet point of performance vs. pesistence in a spectrum from "This is just a cache" up to "every transaction counts"

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