How can Redis be used?

There is more to Redis than just caching.

Redis can be used in a variety of scenarios as shown in the diagram.

🔹Session
We can use Redis to share user session data among different services.

🔹Cache
We can use Redis to cache objects or pages, especially for hotspot data.

🔹Distributed lock
We can use a Redis string to acquire locks among distributed services.

🔹Counter
We can count how many likes or how many reads for articles.

🔹Rate limiter
We can apply a rate limiter for certain user IPs.

🔹Global ID generator
We can use Redis Int for global ID.

🔹Shopping cart
We can use Redis Hash to represent key-value pairs in a shopping cart.

🔹Calculate user retention
We can use Bitmap to represent the user login daily and calculate user retention.

🔹Message queue
We can use List for a message queue.

🔹Ranking
We can use ZSet to sort the articles.

Over to you: Have you used Redis for other use cases? What are they?