Memory clean vs disk doctor archive#
Memory clean vs disk doctor full#

Memory clean vs disk doctor full#

Even if the log ends with a half-written command for some reason (disk full or other reasons) the redis-check-aof tool is able to fix it easily. The AOF log is an append-only log, so there are no seeks, nor corruption problems if there is a power outage.fsync is performed using a background thread and the main thread will try hard to perform writes when no fsync is in progress, so you can only lose one second worth of writes. With the default policy of fsync every second, write performance is still great. Using AOF Redis is much more durable: you can have different fsync policies: no fsync at all, fsync every second, fsync at every query.AOF also needs to fork() but less frequently and you can tune how often you want to rewrite your logs without any trade-off on durability.

fork() can be time consuming if the dataset is big, and may result in Redis stopping serving clients for some milliseconds or even for one second if the dataset is very big and the CPU performance is not great.

RDB needs to fork() often in order to persist on disk using a child process.

However you'll usually create an RDB snapshot every five minutes or more, so in case of Redis stopping working without a correct shutdown for any reason you should be prepared to lose the latest minutes of data. You can configure different save points where an RDB is produced (for instance after at least five minutes and 100 writes against the data set, you can have multiple save points).

RDB is NOT good if you need to minimize the chance of data loss in case Redis stops working (for example after a power outage).

On replicas, RDB supports partial resynchronizations after restarts and failovers.

RDB allows faster restarts with big datasets compared to AOF.

The parent process will never perform disk I/O or alike. RDB maximizes Redis performances since the only work the Redis parent process needs to do in order to persist is forking a child that will do all the rest.RDB is very good for disaster recovery, being a single compact file that can be transferred to far data centers, or onto Amazon S3 (possibly encrypted).This allows you to easily restore different versions of the data set in case of disasters.

Memory clean vs disk doctor archive#

For instance you may want to archive your RDB files every hour for the latest 24 hours, and to save an RDB snapshot every day for 30 days. RDB is a very compact single-file point-in-time representation of your Redis data.The most important thing to understand is the different trade-offs between the Notice that, in this case, when Redis restarts the AOF file will be used to reconstruct the original dataset since it is guaranteed to be the most complete. RDB + AOF: It is possible to combine both AOF and RDB in the same instance.No persistence: If you wish, you can disable persistence completely, if you want your data to just exist as long as the server is running.Redis is able to rewrite the log in the background when it gets too big. Commands are logged using the same format as the Redis protocol itself, in an append-only fashion. AOF (Append Only File): The AOF persistence logs every write operation received by the server, that will be played again at server startup, reconstructing the original dataset.RDB (Redis Database): The RDB persistence performs point-in-time snapshots of your dataset at specified intervals.Redis itself provides a range of persistence options: Persistence refers to the writing of data to durable storage, such as a solid-state disk (SSD). How Redis writes data to disk (append-only files, snapshots, etc.) Out-of-order / backfilled ingestion performance considerations.