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Redis vs Varnish

A side-by-side look at Redis and Varnish. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Redis

Redis

Development

Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes and streams.

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Varnish

Varnish

Network & Admin

Varnish is an open source web application accelerator designed to speed up websites by caching and optimizing content delivery. It sits in front of web servers and caches frequently-accessed content, reducing requests to backend servers.

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