Yugabyte Dictionary Service (YEDIS)
Deprecated
Yugabyte's current focus is on the two distributed SQL APIs, namely YSQL (PostgreSQL-compatible fully-relational API) and YCQL (a semi-relational API with Cassandra QL roots). Given that YEDIS is not a focus, it must be viewed as a deprecated API for new application development purposes.The YEDIS API allows YugabyteDB to function as a persistent, resilient, auto-sharded, globally-distributed key-value database that is compatible with the Redis command library. A Redis client can connect, send requests, and receive results from this API.
Redis compatibility
While YEDIS supports many Redis data types (such as string, hash, set, sorted set, and a new time-series type) and commands, there are some notable exceptions:
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Only a subset of sorted set commands (ZCARD, ZADD, ZRANGEBYSCORE, ZREM, ZRANGE, ZREVRANGE, ZSCORE) have been implemented. Several commands like ZCOUNT, ZREVRANGEBYSCORE, ZRANK, ZREVRANK are not implemented.
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List, Bitmaps, HyperLogLogs, and GeoSpatial types/commands are not implemented.
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YugabyteDB is a full-featured disk-based database and does not have an in-memory only architecture like Redis.
YEDIS is not a drop-in replacement to an existing Redis app. For key-value workloads that need persistence, elasticity and fault tolerance, YCQL (with features like keyspaces, tables, role-based access control, and more) is often a great fit, especially if the application is new rather than an existing one already written in Redis. The YCQL drivers are also more clustering aware in terms of routing the request directly to the node which hosts the row/key, and hence YCQL even performs marginally better than YEDIS for equivalent scenarios. In general, our new feature development (support for data types, built-ins, TLS, backups, and more), correctness testing (using Jepsen, for example) and performance work is in the YSQL and YCQL areas.
