Redis Labs

Redis Labs (formerly Garantia Data)
Private
Industry NoSQL
Founded 2011
Headquarters Mountain View, California, USA
Key people
 Ofer Bengal
Yiftach Shoolman
Salvatore Sanfilippo
Products Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster
Redis Cloud
Memcached Cloud
Website www.redislabs.com

Redis Labs (originally Garantia Data) is a private computer software company based in Mountain View, California. It provides a database management system marketed as "NoSQL" as open source software or as a service using cloud computing.[1]

History

Redis Labs was founded in 2011 by Ofer Bengal, previously the founder and CEO of RiT Technologies, and Yiftach Shoolman, previously the founder and president of Crescendo Networks, acquired by F5 Networks.[2][3][4] On July 15, 2015, the creator of Redis and lead developer, Salvatore Sanfilippo, joined Redis Labs to lead open source development, and Redis Labs became the official sponsor of the open source project.[5] The company secured $4 million in seed funding from angel investors in August 2012,[6][7] an additional $9 million in series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and Carmel Ventures,[4][8] an additional $15m in Series B funding led by the existing investors and Silicon Valley Bank,[9] and an additional $14 million in series C funding led by the same investors.[10]

The company announced a beta version of its cloud services at GigaOm’s Structure LaunchPad in June 2012.[11][12][13] According to IT Business Edge, Redis Cloud is especially suitable for “web companies or websites with seasonal or occasional fluctuations in traffic and performance needs."[14] By January 2013 the company had more than 1,000 paying customers including Electronic Arts, Illumina, and Scopely.[15] The Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud products became generally available in February 2013.[16][17] In late 2013, Redis Labs announced it will focus mainly on its cloud-based Redis offering, although it will continue to support the Memcached product.[6]

In September 2013, Amazon Web Services announced Redis capabilities for its ElastiCache product, thereby competing with the company's offering.[18] According to TechCrunch, Redis Labs "has the advantage over AWS when it comes to Redis" because of its scalability and high availability features, which ElastiCache does not provide.[8]

In October 2013, Redis Labs acquired MyRedis, a competing hosted Redis provider.[19][20]

By December 2013, the company had at least 10,000 users,[21] including 1,300 paying customers.[22][6][15] On January 29, 2014, the company changed its name from Garantia Data to Redis Labs.[22]

In September 2014, Redis Labs reported 3,000 paying customers,[23] including Bleacher Report, HotelTonight and Docker.[24]

In early 2015, Redis Labs made available Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster (RLEC),[25] downloadable software for installation of enterprise-grade clusters that acts as a container for managing and running multiple Redis databases.[26]

In early 2016, Redis Labs made available a connector package to Apache Spark.[27][28][29]

In May 2016, the company announced a mechanism for developers to extend Redis,[30] and opened an online marketplace that offers modules certified to work with both open source Redis and Redis Labs’ enterprise products.[31]

Recognition

Products

Redis Labs provides downloadable software and a cloud computing service.[39]

Both of these address two primary challenges faced by Redis users: Redis is not scalable beyond a single node,[13][40] and has limited reliability and high availability capabilities.[3][6]

RLEC and Redis Cloud solve these problems, and provide the following advantages over a regular Redis installation:[36][3][6][8][11]

Add-ons

Several add-ons are also available.[28]

Technology

RLEC and Redis Cloud achieve scalability and high availability using a proprietary dynamic clustering engine. The services virtualize multiple cloud servers into a large pool of memory, consumed by users according to the actual size of their datasets. A dataset is automatically distributed in shards across multiple nodes - this enables fast and transparent recovery when a node fails, and improves performance in high-throughput use cases.[2][6][11][13][17][45][46]

Datasets are also constantly replicated, so if a node fails, an auto-switchover mechanism guarantees data is served without interruption. To provide additional reliability, the entire dataset is constantly replicated from the nodes to persistent storage, and can also be backed up to a remote persistent storage for disaster recovery.[6][17]

Redis Labs offers a pay-per-use pricing model, allowing users to pay per GB-hour of storage used, unlike other providers which price their service based on size of machine instance, even if users consume only some of the machine’s resources.[6][16][45]

Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud are available on Amazon Web Services (US, EU and APAC), Windows Azure, IBM SoftLayer, Heroku, Bluemix, AppFog, AppHarbor,[2] Cloud Foundry and OpenShift. In November 2013, the company announced Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud plugins on New Relic’s Plugin Central - the plugin enable developers who use New Relic to monitor Redis and Memcached usage characteristics directly from their New Relic dashboard.[47]

References

  1. ↑ Kavis, Mike. "Vendor Spotlight: Garantia – In-memory NoSQL company". Kavis Technology Consulting. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 Matt, Aslett (February 14, 2013), "Garantia Data goes GA with Redis and memcached cloud services", 451research.com, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Feinleib, Dave (August 10, 2012), "Big Data and NoSQL: Five Key Insights", forbes.com, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Cloud services co Garantia Data raises $3m", globes.co.il, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  5. ↑ Kepes, Ben (July 15, 2015),"Redis Labs hires the creator of Redis, Salvatore Sanfilippo", Network World, Retrieved August 30, 2015.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Kepes, Ben (November 4, 2013), "Was Garantia, Is Now RedisDB. Either Way NoSQL Is Hot. But Open Source Firestorm Ensues", forbes.com, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Garantia Data Scores $9M Series A", Dow Jones Private Equity & Venture Capital, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  8. 1 2 3 Williams, Alex (November 10, 2013), "Garantia Has The Advantage Over AWS When It Comes To Redis, The Popular NoSQL Database", TechCrunch, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  9. ↑ Wolpe, Toby. "Redis Labs secures multi-million injection to help compete with MongoDB and Cassandra". ZDNet. Retrieved August 25, 2015.
  10. ↑ Frederic Lardinois (July 21, 2016) "Redis Labs raises $14M for its in-memory NoSQL database services",TechCrunch, Retrieved August 22, 2016
  11. 1 2 3 4 Deutscher, Maria (November 26, 2012), "Garantia Boosts AWS with Major NoSQL Upgrade", DevOpsAngle, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  12. ↑ Grant, Rebecca (8/8/2012), "Funding Daily: 8 on 8/8", VentureBeat, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  13. 1 2 3 Deutscher, Maria (June 21, 2012), "Garantia’s New In-Memory NoSQL Service", ServicesAngle, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  14. ↑ Lawson, Loraine (June 22, 2012), "News Roundup: Hadoop, Hadoop and More Hadoop", IT Business Edge, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  15. 1 2 Novet, Jordan (November 5, 2013), "Garantia Data becomes RedisDB, grabs $9M as it passes thousand-customer mark", VentureBeat, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  16. 1 2 Tozzi, Christopher (February 15, 2013), "Garantia Unveils In-Memory NoSQL Cloud Storage Platforms", The VAR Guy, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  17. 1 2 3 Marshall, David (February 18, 2013), "Q&A: Interview with Garantia Data Talking Redis Cloud and Memcached Cloud", VMWare VMBlog, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis", Amazon Web Services Blog, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  19. 1 2 Dayaratna, Arnal, Ph.D. (7/14/2013), "MyRedis NoSQL Platform Acquired By Garantia Data", Cloud Computing Today, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  20. ↑ Finley, Klint (October 7, 2013), "Dying Cloud Mistakenly Gives Users Three Days to Save Data", wired.com, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  21. ↑ Loeb, Steven (November 4, 2013), "Garantia Data takes in $9M in Series A funding", Vator News, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  22. 1 2 Williams, Alex (January 29, 2014), "Database Provider Garantia Data Makes Another Name Change, This Time To Redis Labs", TechCrunch, Retrieved February 9, 2014.
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  25. ↑ Butler, Brandon (October 6, 2015), "Hottest products at AWS re:Invent 2015", Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  26. ↑ Kepes, Ben (June 25, 2015), "Redis Closes $15M Funding To Scale NoSQL For The Enterprise", Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  27. ↑ George Leopold (02/02/2016), "Redis Connector Aims to Boost Spark Performance", [Datanami], Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  28. 1 2 Joab Jackson (02/02/2016), "Spark Closes in on Real-Time Processing with Redis Pairing", [TheNewStack], Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  29. ↑ Shoolman, Yiftach. "Give Spark a 45x speed boost with Redis". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
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  31. ↑ Jordan Novet (05/10/2016), "Redis launches modules to add extensibility to the open source database", [VentureBeat], Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  32. ↑ David Ramel (08/22/2016), "MongoDB Leads Crowded Big Data NoSQL Field in Research Report", [Application Development Trends], Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  33. ↑ Virginia Backaitis (10/21/2015), "Disruption Alert: Gartner's Operational DBMS Leaders", [CMSWire], Retrieved September 1, 2016.
  34. ↑ Pezzini, Massimo; Edjlali, R; Feinberg, D; Lervolino, C; Schulte, W.R. (April 23, 2013), "Cool Vendors in In-Memory Computing, 2013", Gartner, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  35. ↑ Whiting, Rick (April 11, 2013), "Big Data 100: Data Management", crn.com, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  36. 1 2 Butler, Brandon (December 19, 2012), "10 of the most useful cloud databases", Network World, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
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  39. ↑ "DB-Engines Ranking of Key-value Stores", db-engines.com, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  40. ↑ Butler, Brandon (September 5, 2012), "12 hot cloud computing companies worth watching", IDG ComputerWorld, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
  41. ↑ Redis Cluster Tutorial, Redis.io, Retrieved 2013-12-25.
  42. ↑ Sanfilippo, Salvatore (February 14, 2013), News about Redis: 2.8 is shaping, I'm back on Cluster, Antirez Weblog - Salvatore Sanfilippo, Retrieved 2013-12-25.
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  45. 1 2 Higginbotham, Stacey (June 27, 2012), "GarantiaData and the lure of infinite scalability", GigaOM, Retrieved January 2, 2014.
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