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JFrog Artifactory vs Redis comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

JFrog Artifactory
Ranking in AI Software Development
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Repository Managers (2nd)
Redis
Ranking in AI Software Development
9th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
NoSQL Databases (3rd), Managed NoSQL Databases (5th), In-Memory Data Store Services (1st), Vector Databases (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of JFrog Artifactory is 0.4%. The mindshare of Redis is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Software Development Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
JFrog Artifactory0.4%
Redis0.5%
Other99.1%
AI Software Development
 

Featured Reviews

VB
Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Supports a wide variety of packages with robust security features but needs tighter cloud integration
The best features of JFrog Artifactory include the core functionality of package management and software management, along with scanning capabilities to prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced. The metadata management feature was particularly useful for managing packages within JFrog Artifactory. We utilized Xray integration with JFrog Artifactory, which was instrumental in managing vulnerabilities overall. JFrog Artifactory has robust functionality in terms of access control, which helped us ensure minimal access to various artifacts. I would rate it eight out of ten because it is a great product that is widely used in the industry. It has excellent features from an artifact management perspective and maintains good integrations.
RituRaj - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 2 at Virtusa
Caching has improved response times and reduces database load for high-traffic applications
Redis is very reliable, but it could be improved in areas such as monitoring, debugging, and feasibility into memory use. Better built-in tools for observability would help teams manage it more effectively at scale. Managing memory efficiently and troubleshooting issues can sometimes require additional tooling, so these areas can also be improved.One practical challenge I experienced is managing memory efficiently. Since Redis is in-memory, we need to carefully configure eviction policies and monitor usage. Debugging cache-related issues such as stale data or cache invalidation can sometimes be tricky. Additionally, tuning memory usage and eviction policies needs to be planned very carefully.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"JFrog Artifactory has positively impacted my organization by centralizing artifact management and improving consistency across builds."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the JFrog CLI."
"HPE was using it for a lot of things, and they certainly had a massive implementation."
"The feature that I like is Permission Targets. If I want to give permission to only deploy the cache, I can give that permission to a set of users. Similarly, if I want to overwrite an artifact with the same name from the same pipeline, I can give permission for that as well to particular users."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a centralized repository and that you can open multiple repositories for different types of artifacts."
"JFrog Artifactory has helped us scale faster and is a highly available, robust artifact repository that boosts our confidence in production."
"JFrog Artifactory proved very helpful in supporting a variety of package types for different projects."
"As for specific outcomes about the positive impact from expanding to four or five verticals, we have achieved faster deployment speeds, faster time to market, and lower pipeline failure rates."
"Redis is a powerful and reliable tool for improving application performance."
"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."
"Overall, Redis helps us design more efficient applications by improving performance while allowing our backend services to scale more effectively."
"Redis has multiple valuable features such as being a free and reliable open-source tool."
"Since I started using Redis, I feel that the product is saving me some performance tuning time."
"Redis is a simple service that does what it promises."
"What I like best about Redis is its fast and easy use. It has interesting algorithms like HyperLogLog and provides useful features. It's also good for implementing scalable rate limiting."
"The online interface is very fast and easy to use."
 

Cons

"I choose a nine out of ten because, as mentioned in my previous answer, it sometimes faces performance issues due to slow repository response and long download times for artifacts, which affects overall performance."
"Currently, JFrog Artifactory doesn't have AI features, which is an area they could update in the future."
"Looking back, I think the learning curve for JFrog Artifactory could be eased, and the installation process could feel less overwhelming."
"The documentation is a bit sparse. That's our only complaint."
"The latest version that I am using is 7.41. It has been upgraded graphics-wise, but there is a bit of slowness. They can improve the graphical interface for the admin jobs and make it faster."
"It's an enterprise product that acts like an enterprise product. In other words, it's not a product where they focus on user experience. I wasn't an administrator, so I primarily worked with the command line tool to upload and download parts of the product. I was not impressed with that because it wasn't well documented. It was challenging to figure out how to get things to work."
"In some of the latest versions of JFrog's SaaS solution, they changed the user interface, the SSO settings, how you interact with them over API, and how you generate tokens. It was very confusing for me. The overall user management is very complicated."
"The complexity of managing the tool and the high cost prevent it from being a ten, especially considering there are cloud-native alternatives that are cheaper and easier to use."
"It's actually quite expensive."
"The first challenge is memory limitations, as Redis is primarily in-memory, making memory usage a key constraint."
"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."
"The disadvantage of Redis is that it's a little bit hard to have too many clusters or too many nodes and create the clusters."
"The initial setup of Redis was difficult, with a rating of two or three out of ten."
"The only thing is the lack of a GUI application. There was a time when we needed to resolve an issue in production. If we had a GUI, it would have been easier."
"There is room for AWS to provide more options for server types or a way to configure more or less memory for them."
"Redis should have an option to operate without Docker on a local PC."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am not aware of its cost, but it is worth investing in this. My guess is that its price is not much because we generally prefer open-source solutions, and if we are investing, we don't go for expensive ones. Our selection is based on the market demand and needs, and we invest only if something is worth the cost."
"It is a bit expensive. It could be a little bit lower or have an a la carte option because, in our case, we had to go to the next version of Enterprise X because we needed one feature, which was more than three projects. We don't need all the other capabilities, but we're paying for all those. It's almost twice the cost of the previous version. So, it would be nice to have something along those lines."
"Redis is not an overpriced solution."
"Redis is an open-source product."
"Redis is an open-source solution. There are not any hidden fees."
"The tool is open-source. There are no additional costs."
"We saw an ROI. It made the processing of our transactions faster."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JFrog Artifactory?
I do not have much experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, as it was set up by a different team.
What needs improvement with JFrog Artifactory?
I cannot say much about how JFrog Artifactory can be improved. I appreciate the opportunity to add more about the needed improvements, even small ones. Maybe around user experience, I think one imp...
What is your primary use case for JFrog Artifactory?
My main use case for JFrog Artifactory is hosting artifacts for products, ranging from Docker images to Helm charts, and regular binaries. I can give you a specific example of how I use JFrog Artif...
What needs improvement with Redis?
Making management easier, especially for teams operating large Redis clusters, would be helpful. More advanced built-in observability, performance insights, and automated recommendations would help...
What is your primary use case for Redis?
Redis is used primarily as a caching layer to provide a high-performance caching solution that improves application response times and reduces load on backend services and databases. We use it main...
What advice do you have for others considering Redis?
There are a couple of things to consider when using Redis. It is a supporting layer, not a main database. Identifying specific use cases where Redis can provide the most value, such as caching, ses...
 

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