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Arti Negi
Arti Negi

Reputation: 81

Redis for API calls

Redis is single threaded yet it is fast. Can we use Redis database for API calls as APIs call is concurrent in nature? Is Redis capable of handling multiple API call requests?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1804

Answers (2)

RaR
RaR

Reputation: 3213

Yes, you can use.

Redis is very very fast. You might want to take a look at their benchmark. Moreover, we can scale Redis horizontally via clustering and partitioning.

Partitioning allows scaling the computational power to multiple cores and multiple computers, and the network bandwidth to multiple computers and network adapters.

https://redis.io/topics/partitioning

https://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial

Upvotes: 2

Tague Griffith
Tague Griffith

Reputation: 4173

Yes, you can use Redis at the database for a system that needs to support multiple concurrent API calls.

When you implement your API calls using whatever framework and language you are interested in using, if your API implementation needs to make a request to Redis, that call will wait on the accept queue for the socket until your request gets processed.

Many large websites use Redis as a database to implement APIs in the manner you suggest.

Upvotes: 7

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