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Simon Suh
Simon Suh

Reputation: 10892

What do the acronyms AOF and RDB stand for in Redis?

I'm reading the Redis documentation on persistence here - https://redis.io/topics/persistence - and am wondering what the acronyms AOF and RDB stand for. Thanks! :)

Upvotes: 93

Views: 23794

Answers (2)

swayamraina
swayamraina

Reputation: 3158

I would like to make an update @Tague's answer (for RDB) and also adding a basic info for each.
Both of these are options if one has to choose persistence for Redis data.

RDB is for Redis Database Backup file.
RDB file is a dump of all user data stored in an internal, compressed serialization format at a particular timestamp which is used for point-in-time recovery (recovery from a timestamp).

AOF stands for Append Only File.
AOF is actually a persistence technique in which an RDB file is generated once and all the data is appended to it as it comes.

Upvotes: 73

Tague Griffith
Tague Griffith

Reputation: 4173

AOF stands for Append Only File. It's the change-log style persistent format.

RDB is for Redis Database File. It's the snapshot style persistence format.

Upvotes: 126

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