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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.
Pros of Consul
- Great service discovery infrastructure59
- Health checking35
- Distributed key-value store27
- Monitoring25
- High-availability23
- Web-UI11
- Token-based acls10
- Gossip clustering6
- Dns server5
- Not Java2
- Docker integration1
Pros of Redis
- Performance875
- Super fast535
- Ease of use511
- In-memory cache441
- Advanced key-value cache321
- Open source190
- Easy to deploy179
- Stable163
- Free152
- Fast120
- High-Performance40
- High Availability39
- Data Structures34
- Very Scalable32
- Replication23
- Great community20
- Pub/Sub19
- "NoSQL" key-value data store17
- Hashes14
- Sets12
- Sorted Sets10
- Lists9
- BSD licensed8
- NoSQL8
- Async replication7
- Integrates super easy with Sidekiq for Rails background7
- Bitmaps7
- Open Source6
- Keys with a limited time-to-live6
- Strings5
- Lua scripting5
- Awesomeness for Free!4
- Hyperloglogs4
- outstanding performance3
- Runs server side LUA3
- Networked3
- LRU eviction of keys3
- Written in ANSI C3
- Feature Rich3
- Transactions3
- Data structure server2
- Performance & ease of use2
- Existing Laravel Integration1
- Automatic failover1
- Easy to use1
- Object [key/value] size each 500 MB1
- Simple1
- Channels concept1
- Scalable1
- Temporarily kept on disk1
- Dont save data if no subscribers are found1
- Jk0
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Cons of Consul
Cons of Redis
- Cannot query objects directly14
- No secondary indexes for non-numeric data types2
- No WAL1
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