Redis on Flash and persistent memory technology (e.g. 3DXPoint)

Redis on Flash and persistent memory technology (e.g. 3DXPoint)

RoF is designed from the ground up to achieve the optimal performance over new persistent memory technologies like Intel 3DXPoint. Persistent memory is designed with DRAM and NAND (Flash) integrated in the same chipset, and the software that uses the chipset can control which part of the data should reside on the DRAM side of the chipset and which part should reside on Flash—exactly the way RoF works!

Intel’s persistent memory technology is currently used by two different products:

Optane: a new NVMe-based SSD card
Apache Pass: a non-volatile dual-inline memory module (NVDIMM)

The engineering teams from Intel and Redis Labs are working together to benchmark these products. The benchmark below compares Intel’s Optane-based NVMe with the P3700, a previous generation NVMe-based card:

Note: RoF benchmarks on Intel Apache Pass will soon be published.