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"

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.

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