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CloudAMQP vs Redis comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

CloudAMQP
Average Rating
9.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Message Queue (MQ) Software (10th)
Redis
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
NoSQL Databases (3rd), Managed NoSQL Databases (6th), In-Memory Data Store Services (1st), Vector Databases (3rd), AI Software Development (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

HemantKumar7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Reliable queues have handled heavy microservice traffic and prevent data loss in daily operations
The best features CloudAMQP offers include its ability to handle load efficiently. Without it, if there is a lack of requests coming from multiple consumers, it stores the data in the queue, and the lag will clear after consumption from the consumer side, ensuring no messages drop from CloudAMQP. Additionally, it can run tasks in the background so that it does not block any user requests. CloudAMQP is able to handle the load, and if I want to scale, I can scale the RabbitMQ nodes without any downtime. CloudAMQP has impacted our organization positively because it can handle a huge amount of data. I can have multiple RabbitMQ queues inside CloudAMQP and, as per my plan, purchase multiple queues that offer different capabilities. For example, the Tough Tiger plan allows sending a maximum of ten million messages per month with simultaneous connections of one hundred connections per queue, ensuring no traffic loss. For heavy environments, I can opt for Big Bunny queues, where I can handle one lakh messages per second if there is a huge amount of traffic. Additionally, I have a dedicated RabbitMQ broker as per my requirement, and according to my needs in CloudAMQP, there are different queue plans which I can select accordingly.
Varuns Ug - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at NIT
Caching has accelerated complex workflows and delivers low latency for high-traffic microservices
A few features of Redis that I use on a day-to-day basis and feel are among the best are extremely low latency and high throughput. Since Redis is in-memory, it makes it ideal for cases such as caching and rate limiting where response time is critical. TTL expiry support is very useful in Redis as it allows me to automatically evict stale data without manual cleanup, which is something I use heavily in my caching strategy. Another point I can mention is that the rich data structures such as strings, hashes, and even sorted sets are very powerful. I have used strings for caching responses and counters, whereas I have used hashes for storing structured objects. One more feature I can tell you about is atomic operations. Redis guarantees atomicity for operations such as incrementing a counter, which is very useful for rate limiting and avoiding race conditions in distributed systems. Finally, I want to emphasize that Redis is easy to scale and integrate, whether through clustering or using a distributed cache across microservices. Redis has impacted my organization positively by providing default support that is very useful. For metrics, in one of my core systems, introducing Redis as a distributed cache helped me achieve around an 80% cache hit rate, which reduced repeated downstream services. Real API latency also improved from around two seconds to approximately 450 milliseconds for P99. It also helped reduce the load on dependent services and databases, which improved overall system reliability.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"CloudAMQP has positively impacted my organization as I have built an automation for scaling, which has helped the organization benefit from workload distribution and faster processes."
"Since using CloudAMQP, my organization has seen a very significant return on investment because there is no data loss, and I can recover the system timely."
"After using CloudAMQP, our efficiency has increased, and the data which is transferring from the fuel station has become easier and faster to communicate with our front-end application."
"Redis has multiple valuable features such as being a free and reliable open-source tool."
"Redis is good for distributed caching management."
"It is particularly efficient for cloud-based storage and operations."
"The solution is fast, provides good performance, and is not too expensive."
"Redis acts as an in-memory search tool that improves the speed of operations, allowing for quicker data retrieval and enhancing the performance of applications."
"It makes operations more efficient. The information processing is very fast, and very responsive. It's all about the technology."
"I use Redis mostly to cache repeated data that is required."
"Redis is a simple, powerful, and fast solution."
 

Cons

"CloudAMQP can be improved as the pricing is a bit high, and if that could be reduced, it would be a great tool."
"CloudAMQP can be improved in a few ways, such as lowering the pricing at scale and keeping the pricing structure simpler."
"CloudAMQP can be improved, as sometimes while upgrading, for instance, if I am running a Big Bunny cluster and want to upgrade to Happy Hour, there is a lag or slowness while upgrading from one queue to another."
"Redis could be improved by introducing a GUI to display key-value pair database information, as it is currently a CLI tool with no visual representation."
"There are some points where I feel Redis can be improved."
"There are some features from MongoDB that I would like to see included in Redis to enhance its overall efficiency, such as the ability to perform remote behaviour. MongoDB is more efficient in handling updates than deletions and is quicker in processing updates, but it can be slower regarding deletions. This can sometimes pose a challenge, especially when dealing with large datasets or frequent data manipulations that involve deletions. In such cases, I often rewrite columns or update values instead of directly deleting data, as it can be more efficient."
"In future releases, I would like Redis to provide its users with an option like schema validation. Currently, the solution lacks to offer such functionality."
"Redis should have an option to operate without Docker on a local PC."
"There is a lack of documentation on the scalability of the solution."
"There is room for AWS to provide more options for server types or a way to configure more or less memory for them."
"If we use a lot of data, it will eventually cost us a lot."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The tool is open-source. There are no additional costs."
"Redis is an open-source product."
"Redis is not an overpriced solution."
"We saw an ROI. It made the processing of our transactions faster."
"Redis is an open-source solution. There are not any hidden fees."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
53%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Transportation Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
6%
University
6%
 

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Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudAMQP?
CloudAMQP can be improved, as sometimes while upgrading, for instance, if I am running a Big Bunny cluster and want to upgrade to Happy Hour, there is a lag or slowness while upgrading from one que...
What is your primary use case for CloudAMQP?
Our main use case for CloudAMQP is that we are using it for RabbitMQ operations as a message broker, with CloudAMQP managing RabbitMQ. Apart from that, we use it for microservice communication. In ...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudAMQP?
My advice for others looking into using CloudAMQP is that if you are choosing any message broker, you can go directly to CloudAMQP. However, before making a choice, at least check their plans accor...
What needs improvement with Redis?
Overall, Redis is a powerful and reliable tool, but there are a few areas for improvement. One limitation is that Redis is memory-based, so scaling can become expensive compared to disk-based syste...
What is your primary use case for Redis?
My main use case for Redis is caching frequently accessed data to improve performance and reduce database load. For example, I cache API responses and user-related data so that repeated requests ca...
What advice do you have for others considering Redis?
My main advice for those looking into using Redis is to focus on the use case; Redis excels where low latency is critical, such as caching, session management, or real-time features, rather than us...
 

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