Alternative caching options

[kmathewmk]

Are there alternatives to Redis (Azure Cache for Redis)? If yes, what are they and their pros & cons?

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• Content: Caching guidance - Azure Architecture Center
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[AjayKumar-MSFT]

kmathewmk, Thanks for the feedback! Your feedback has been shared with the content owner for further review.

[v-fearam]

Hi @kmathewmk Sorry for the delay. Using c# you can configure several distributed cache, https://learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/performance/caching/distributed#establish-distributed-caching-services. It includes options like SQL Database as cache.

Here the recommendations: https://learn.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/performance/caching/distributed#recommendations

I will close the ticket, but feel free to re-open if additional clarification is needed.

[v-fearam]

#please-close

[kmathewmk]

Thanks for the useful pointer. I think that alternatives should be mentioned or linked in the Caching guidance - Azure Architecture Center page. Having the information here in the git issue does not expose the info to all users. Also, are there caching alternatives suited for cloud/AKS services running of multiple compute instances? For eg we tried Varnish, Nginx for some of our needs.

[v-fearam]

Thanks for the suggestion, I will create a ticket for content development writers.

Even though you are looking for cache options, the best way to cache applications data on Azure is using Redis. It is cloud and as a service. The service manages the high availability. Also, you could use SQL Server as a service and use it as cache.

From AKS, you can use any azure service.

Varnish is a different kind of cache. Here how to use it on Azure

As far as you can run it on docker you can use it inside AKS. The same case for nginx.