Redis Cluster DCS instances use the native distributed implementation of Redis. Redis Cluster instances have the following features:
- They are compatible with native Redis clusters.
- They inherit the smart client design from Redis.
- They deliver many times higher performance than master/standby instances.
Redis Cluster
The Redis Cluster instance type provided by DCS is compatible with the native Redis Cluster, which uses smart clients and a distributed architecture to perform sharding.
Table 1 lists the shard specification for different instance specifications.
Size of a shard = Instance specification/Number of shards. For example, if a 48 GB instance has 6 shards, the size of each shard is 48 GB/6 = 8 GB.
Total Memory |
Shards |
|---|---|
4 GB/8 GB/16 GB/24 GB/32 GB |
3 |
48 GB |
6 |
64 GB |
8 |
96 GB |
12 |
128 GB |
16 |
192 GB |
24 |
256 GB |
32 |
384 GB |
48 |
512 GB |
64 |
768 GB |
96 |
1024 GB |
128 |
- Distributed architecture
Any node in a Redis Cluster can receive requests. Received requests are then redirected to the right node for processing. Each node consists of a subset of one master and one (by default) or multiple replicas. The master or replica roles are determined through an election algorithm.
Figure 1 Distributed architecture of Redis Cluster
- Presharding
There are 16,384 hash slots in each Redis Cluster. The mapping between hash slots and Redis nodes is stored in Redis Servers. To compute what is the hash slot of a given key, simply take the CRC16 of the key modulo 16384. Example command output
Figure 2 Redis Cluster presharding