Running KeyDB on Arm-based Amazon EC2 A1 Instances for the Best Price/Performance

August 19, 2019

We’ve talked to many of our users who were looking to optimize their cost on AWS. While most had experimented with the many available x86 based instance types we were surprised that few had tried the Arm-based Amazon EC2 A1 instances. These Arm-based instances come with unique performance advantages for multi-threaded cache server workloads. To understand why cache databases, and KeyDB specifically, is uniquely suited to Arm we have to first understand a little about the hardware.

Redis Replication and KeyDB Active Replication: Optimizing System Resources

August 5, 2019

Ben Schermel

A lot of sites run replica nodes for high availability of their servers. Makes sense, but is this replica being fully utilized? Or are you just paying for high availability without getting the performance boost of essentially doubling your resources? This article discusses options used with Redis, as well as the active-replication option used in the Redis compatible database KeyDB.

How Fast can A Single Instance of Redis be?

June 17, 2019

Ben Schermel

Redis is known as one of the fastest databases out there. But what if some of the limitations were removed, how fast could a stand-alone instance become? We often hear that Redis will likely become network bound or memory bound before it is CPU bound on performance limitations. Depending on your setup it could be any of these.

In this article we are going to discuss how we made a module that nearly doubles Redis performance!

A Brief History of Existential Threats to Open Source

March 11, 2019

John Sully

How times have changed. In the early 2000s Steve Ballmer famously called Linux a “cancer”. But Microsoft was not the biggest threat. A debate was raging that threatened to sow confusion, fracture the community, and derail open source as a whole. Should people who modify open source software be required to open source their changes as the GPL requires? Or should they be free to do as they wished even if that meant keeping their changes proprietary? The fight was over developer freedom vs user freedom, with the Free Software Foundation in one ring, and Apache Software Foundation in the other. Without a united front open source was doomed — or so Microsoft hoped.

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