RedisStorageService

[Cantor, Scott]

On 3/29/17, 10:54 AM, "dev on behalf of Michael A Grady" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of mgrady at unicon.net> wrote:

> Hazelcast performs well, has numerous stats comparing its performance to Redis or Memcache, but while they make available
> an "open source edition", there isn't any support structure in place if you need help. You need to pay for a supported edition. And
> we aren't really talking "big data" here, where those performance differences would become key. Redis, on the other hand, is
> fully open source with the usual user mailing list for support.

Wasn't aware, thank you.

> Unicon has also been considering creating a Redis storage backend for the Shib IdP.  As Marvin indicates, it has the advantage of
> supporting replication out-of-the-box, and the option for persisting data to disk. And it is one of the two options
> (memcache being the other) supported by AWS's ElastiCache service. 

Per my previous note, built-in replication and persistence are my two basic asks.

-- Scott