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etcd vs Redis: What are the differences?

What is etcd? A distributed consistent key-value store for shared configuration and service discovery. 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.

What is 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.

etcd and Redis are primarily classified as "Open Source Service Discovery" and "In-Memory Databases" tools respectively.

"Service discovery" is the top reason why over 7 developers like etcd, while over 842 developers mention "Performance" as the leading cause for choosing Redis.

etcd and Redis are both open source tools. It seems that Redis with 37.4K GitHub stars and 14.4K forks on GitHub has more adoption than etcd with 25.9K GitHub stars and 5.26K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Redis has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3265 company stacks & 1788 developers stacks; compared to etcd, which is listed in 27 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Pros of etcd
Pros of Redis
  • 11
    Service discovery
  • 6
    Fault tolerant key value store
  • 2
    Secure
  • 2
    Bundled with coreos
  • 1
    Privilege Access Management
  • 1
    Consol integration
  • 1
    Open Source
  • 882
    Performance
  • 540
    Super fast
  • 510
    Ease of use
  • 441
    In-memory cache
  • 321
    Advanced key-value cache
  • 191
    Open source
  • 180
    Easy to deploy
  • 163
    Stable
  • 153
    Free
  • 120
    Fast
  • 40
    High-Performance
  • 39
    High Availability
  • 34
    Data Structures
  • 31
    Very Scalable
  • 23
    Replication
  • 21
    Great community
  • 21
    Pub/Sub
  • 17
    "NoSQL" key-value data store
  • 14
    Hashes
  • 12
    Sets
  • 10
    Sorted Sets
  • 9
    Lists
  • 8
    BSD licensed
  • 8
    NoSQL
  • 7
    Integrates super easy with Sidekiq for Rails background
  • 7
    Async replication
  • 7
    Bitmaps
  • 6
    Keys with a limited time-to-live
  • 6
    Open Source
  • 5
    Strings
  • 5
    Lua scripting
  • 4
    Hyperloglogs
  • 4
    Awesomeness for Free!
  • 3
    Transactions
  • 3
    Runs server side LUA
  • 3
    outstanding performance
  • 3
    Networked
  • 3
    LRU eviction of keys
  • 3
    Written in ANSI C
  • 3
    Feature Rich
  • 2
    Performance & ease of use
  • 2
    Data structure server
  • 1
    Simple
  • 1
    Channels concept
  • 1
    Scalable
  • 1
    Temporarily kept on disk
  • 1
    Dont save data if no subscribers are found
  • 1
    Automatic failover
  • 1
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Existing Laravel Integration
  • 1
    Object [key/value] size each 500 MB

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Cons of etcd
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 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.

    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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    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.
    MongoDB
    MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
    Cassandra
    Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.
    Vault
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