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Community Blog How to Set up and Configure Alibaba Cloud Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) In-Memory Database

How to Set up and Configure Alibaba Cloud Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) In-Memory Database

This article explains how to set up and configure Alibaba Cloud Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) in-memory database

By Kelvin Galabuzi

What Is Tair (Redis®* OSS-Compatible)?

Alibaba Cloud Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) is a fully managed key-value storage cloud database that retrieves data from the in-memory cache to support resource-intensive reads and writes. Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) is secure, scalable, and supports various data types, such as strings, lists, sets, ordered sets, and hashes.

Alibaba Cloud provides an Individual and Enterprise free trial for Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible). You are eligible for a 4GB Master-Replica Instance for the individual free trial using the Dual-node hot standby architecture and running on the Standard edition of Redis® for one month.

You can run an 8GB Master-Replica instance for the Enterprise free trial, using the dual-node hot-standby architecture running on the Standard edition for two months.

Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) Core Features

  • Multiple Redis® Editions: Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) supports multiple editions of Redis®, such as Community edition, Enhanced edition, and Redis® Enterprise edition. Each edition comes with a variety of capabilities to support your specific business requirements.
  • Multiple Redis® Architectures: Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) supports different business needs through various architectures, such as single shard, master replica, read/write splitting, and distributed cluster architectures.
  • Redis® Data Security: Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) supports automatic backup and restoration, multi-layer network protection to protect against DDOS attacks, disaster recovery, and in-depth kernel optimization
  • Redis® Dynamic Upgrades: Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) supports dynamic upgrades to improve your databases' performance, which includes ease in adjusting memory and upgrading the cluster architecture at any time to improve performance.
  • Operations and Maintenance: Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) integrates well with the Data Management service to monitor CPU utilization, memory, backup and restore operations, and kernel version management.

Setting up and Configuring an Alibaba Cloud Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) Instance

  • Step 1: In the Alibaba Cloud Console, access the Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) service under the NoSQL Databases section:

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  • Step 2: In the Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) console, click Create an instance with local disks:

Note: You can optionally select the cloud disks option depending on your preference.

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  • Step 3: Select the Product type, Region, Deployment Type, Primary Zone, Network Type, VPC, VSwitch, Edition Type, Redis version, and Architecture Type:

Note for Production grade In-Memory database workloads: You should use the Enhanced edition to meet the Input/Output operations requirements and high-concurrency needs for most high database traffic applications.

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  • Step 4: Select the Shards, Node type, Instance specifications, Password setting, and Instance name and click Buy Now.

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  • Step 5: Review your configurations, accept the terms of service and click Activate Now:

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  • Step 6: After a few minutes, the newly created instance will appear in the Instances section of the Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) console:

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  • Step 7: You need to create an account to access your Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) instance. Select the Account Management section for your instance and assign the required Username and Password. Click OK to create the new account:

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  • Step 8: Click the Log into Database button to log on to your Redis® instance. This will load up the Data Management Service (DMS). Next, insert your Database Type to Redis®, Instance Region, Instance ID, Access Mode, Database Account, and Password and click Login:

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  • Step 9: Finally, you can start managing your Tair (Redis® OSS-Compatible) from the Data Management Service portal as shown in the picture:

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*Redis is a registered trademark of Redis Ltd. Any rights therein are reserved to Redis Ltd. Any use by Alibaba Cloud is for referential purposes only and does not indicate any sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation between Redis and Alibaba Cloud.

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