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blitz.io: Using Redis Transactions with CouchDB

January 17, 2012

At blitz.io, for a while there, we were only relying on CouchDB clusters as the primary NoSQL database with some in-memory caching. As we grow (rapidly) and scale out, there are aspects of what we collect and store that are transient and real-time. While CouchDB is awesome for the map/reduce, replication and incremental view indexes, the real-time queues (emails, counters, stats, etc) natural lend themselves to, yup, redis. We are in the process of rolling out geo-located redis instances as part of our global infrastructure.

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Categories: Blitz, Cloud, CouchDB, DevOps, Redis, Scalability
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