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Consul vs Redis: What are the differences?

Consul: A tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration. Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable; Redis: An in-memory database that persists on disk. Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets.

Consul belongs to "Open Source Service Discovery" category of the tech stack, while Redis can be primarily classified under "In-Memory Databases".

"Great service discovery infrastructure" is the primary reason why developers consider Consul over the competitors, whereas "Performance" was stated as the key factor in picking Redis.

Consul and Redis are both open source tools. Redis with 37.4K GitHub stars and 14.4K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Consul with 16.4K GitHub stars and 2.85K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Redis has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3265 company stacks & 1788 developers stacks; compared to Consul, which is listed in 134 company stacks and 55 developer stacks.

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Pros of Consul
Pros of Redis
  • 60
    Great service discovery infrastructure
  • 35
    Health checking
  • 29
    Distributed key-value store
  • 26
    Monitoring
  • 23
    High-availability
  • 12
    Web-UI
  • 10
    Token-based acls
  • 6
    Gossip clustering
  • 5
    Dns server
  • 3
    Not Java
  • 1
    Docker integration
  • 884
    Performance
  • 541
    Super fast
  • 512
    Ease of use
  • 443
    In-memory cache
  • 323
    Advanced key-value cache
  • 193
    Open source
  • 182
    Easy to deploy
  • 164
    Stable
  • 155
    Free
  • 121
    Fast
  • 42
    High-Performance
  • 40
    High Availability
  • 34
    Data Structures
  • 32
    Very Scalable
  • 24
    Replication
  • 22
    Pub/Sub
  • 22
    Great community
  • 19
    "NoSQL" key-value data store
  • 15
    Hashes
  • 13
    Sets
  • 11
    Sorted Sets
  • 10
    Lists
  • 9
    BSD licensed
  • 9
    NoSQL
  • 8
    Integrates super easy with Sidekiq for Rails background
  • 8
    Async replication
  • 8
    Bitmaps
  • 7
    Open Source
  • 7
    Keys with a limited time-to-live
  • 6
    Lua scripting
  • 6
    Strings
  • 5
    Awesomeness for Free
  • 5
    Hyperloglogs
  • 4
    Written in ANSI C
  • 4
    LRU eviction of keys
  • 4
    Networked
  • 4
    Outstanding performance
  • 4
    Runs server side LUA
  • 4
    Transactions
  • 4
    Feature Rich
  • 3
    Performance & ease of use
  • 3
    Data structure server
  • 2
    Object [key/value] size each 500 MB
  • 2
    Simple
  • 2
    Scalable
  • 2
    Temporarily kept on disk
  • 2
    Dont save data if no subscribers are found
  • 2
    Automatic failover
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Existing Laravel Integration
  • 2
    Channels concept

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Cons of Consul
Cons of Redis
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    • 15
      Cannot query objects directly
    • 3
      No secondary indexes for non-numeric data types
    • 1
      No WAL

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    What is Consul?

    Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.

    What is Redis?

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

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    etcd
    etcd is a distributed key value store that provides a reliable way to store data across a cluster of machines. It’s open-source and available on GitHub. etcd gracefully handles master elections during network partitions and will tolerate machine failure, including the master.
    Zookeeper
    A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications.
    SkyDNS
    SkyDNS is a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services. It leverages Raft for high-availability and consensus, and utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. This is done by leveraging SRV records in DNS, with special meaning given to subdomains, priorities and weights (more info here: http://blog.gopheracademy.com/skydns).
    Ambassador
    Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP.
    Kubernetes
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