Azure Cache for Redis

Azure Cache for Redis is a fully managed, in-memory data store based on the open-source Redis engine. It provides sub-millisecond response times, making it ideal for caching, session management, real-time analytics, and message brokering. This lesson covers Redis fundamentals, Azure Cache tiers, common patterns, and best practices.

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What Is Redis?

Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is an open-source, in-memory data structure store. Unlike traditional databases that persist data to disk, Redis keeps data in memory, enabling extremely fast reads and writes.

Redis Data Structures