Redis

Description

The Redis online store provides support for materializing feature values into Redis.

• Both Redis and Redis Cluster are supported.

• The data model used to store feature values in Redis is described in more detail here.

Getting started

In order to use this online store, you'll need to install the redis extra (along with the dependency needed for the offline store of choice). E.g.

• pip install 'feast[gcp, redis]'

• pip install 'feast[snowflake, redis]'

• pip install 'feast[aws, redis]'

• pip install 'feast[azure, redis]'

You can get started by using any of the other templates (e.g. feast init -t gcp or feast init -t snowflake or feast init -t aws), and then swapping in Redis as the online store as seen below in the examples.

Examples

Connecting to a single Redis instance:

feature_store.yaml

project: my_feature_repo
registry: data/registry.db
provider: local
online_store:
  type: redis
  connection_string: "localhost:6379"

Connecting to a Redis Cluster with SSL enabled and password authentication:

feature_store.yaml

project: my_feature_repo
registry: data/registry.db
provider: local
online_store:
  type: redis
  redis_type: redis_cluster
  connection_string: "redis1:6379,redis2:6379,ssl=true,password=my_password"

Connecting to a Redis Sentinel with SSL enabled and password authentication:

feature_store.yaml

project: my_feature_repo
registry: data/registry.db
provider: local
online_store:
  type: redis
  redis_type: redis_sentinel
  sentinel_master: mymaster
  connection_string: "redis1:26379,ssl=true,password=my_password"

Additionally, the redis online store also supports automatically deleting data via a TTL mechanism. The TTL is applied at the entity level, so feature values from any associated feature views for an entity are removed together. This TTL can be set in the feature_store.yaml, using the key_ttl_seconds field in the online store. For example:

feature_store.yaml

project: my_feature_repo
registry: data/registry.db
provider: local
online_store:
  type: redis
  key_ttl_seconds: 604800
  connection_string: "localhost:6379"

The full set of configuration options is available in RedisOnlineStoreConfig.

Functionality Matrix

The set of functionality supported by online stores is described in detail here. Below is a matrix indicating which functionality is supported by the Redis online store.

	Redis
write feature values to the online store	yes
read feature values from the online store	yes
update infrastructure (e.g. tables) in the online store	yes
teardown infrastructure (e.g. tables) in the online store	yes
generate a plan of infrastructure changes	no
support for on-demand transforms	yes
readable by Python SDK	yes
readable by Java	yes
readable by Go	yes
support for entityless feature views	yes
support for concurrent writing to the same key	yes
support for ttl (time to live) at retrieval	yes
support for deleting expired data	yes
collocated by feature view	no
collocated by feature service	no
collocated by entity key	yes

To compare this set of functionality against other online stores, please see the full functionality matrix.